GPS On The Moon

[Guest]

You guessed right, the moon doesn't have satellites to send GPS signals.

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[trainreks]

they should just give the astonauts a map, with a "you are here"

 

[Pei-chen]

I'll bet 10 bucks that he'll either be charged with spying for China or jump ship to China's moon program.

 

[Guest]

So he gets 1.2 million dollars to reivent the wheel?
What's wrong with firing off another 24 satilites to the moon and set up an new GPS network?

 

[bounty]

since the moon is tidaly locked with earth, could they use something very similar to GPS, but based on ground signals? I'm not sure how sensitive the equp would have to be etc though.