Xplore wins award from Air Force to study navigational tools for moon missions

Seattle-based Xplore has won a $50,000 award from the Air Force to develop an architecture for keeping track of missions between Earth and the moon.
The three-month study is being funded through the Air Force’s AFWERX technology innovation program, a partnership involving the Air Force Research Laboratory and the National Security Innovation Network.
The Air Force wants to develop systems for position, navigation and timing, or PNT, that would extend a GPS-like tracking system to cislunar space — that is, the domain of space extending to the moon.
There are also national security implications for monitoring traffic in cislunar space.
“The groundbreaking part of this is that cislunar space is a very strong interest of the Air Force,” she said.

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