Published October 15, 2025 | Version v1
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Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) Mission Data

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • 2. ROR icon Polytechnic University of Turin
  • 3. Qascom S.r.l.
  • 4. ROR icon Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
  • 5. EDMO icon National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center

Description

This dataset provides products derived from the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE). 
It is a public dataset containing raw GNSS observables and signal sample batches acquired by the LuGRE payload throughout Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 (BGM1).

 The dataset contains:

  • Raw observable data for GPS and Galileo L1/E1 and L5/E5 bandwidth,
  • Signal samples for L1/E1 and L5/E5 bandwidth.

Files

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Additional details

Funding

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

Dates

Collected
2025-01-15/2025-03-16
From first to last data collection operation
Issued
2025-10-15
Public release date

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/NavsasPolito/LuNART
Programming language
MATLAB
Development Status
Active

References

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  • M. Pulliero, G. Cittadin, M. Boschiero, M. Ghedin, D. Marcantonio, S. Fantinato, E. Miotti, O. Pozzobon, C. Facchinetti, M. Musmeci, G. D'Amore, G. Varacalli, A. Minetto, F. Dovis, J. Parker, S. McKim, L. Konitzer, J. Miller, L. Valencia, and F. Bauer, "The Space Qualification Process of the LuGRE GNSS Payload," in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments, WiSEE 2023 - Proceedings,2023. doi: 10.1109/WiSEE58383.2023.10289430 pp. 7–12
  • A. Minetto, S. Zocca, O. Vouch, A. Nardin F. Dovis, M. Musmeci, C. Facchinetti, "LuNART-q: A Quick-Look Navigation Analysis and Reporting Tool for the LuGRE Mission", in Proceedings of the 38th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS+ 2025, 2025. doi: 10.33012/2025.20440 pp. 1377-1390
  • L. Sciacca, A. Minetto, A. Nardin, S. Tedesco, M. Boschiero, S. Fantinato, L. Canzian, and F. Dovis, "Acquiring GNSS Signals in Cislunar Space: A Hardware-in-the-Loop Investigation for LuGRE Mission Data", in 2025 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), 2025. doi: 10.1109/PLANS61210.2025.11028293 pp. 1036–1045
  • O. Vouch, L. Morichi, S. Zocca, A. Minetto, and F. Dovis, "GNSS Precise Point Positioning in Cislunar Space: A Study on Regularized Least Squares and Availability", in 2025 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), 2025. doi: 10.1109/PLANS61210.2025.11028416 pp. 1014–1025
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