LunaNet is a

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and

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project and proposed data network aiming to provide a "Lunar Internet" for

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spacecraft and installations.''Empowering Artemis with communications and navigation interoperability'' Oct 2021
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data to provide a Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN). The objective is to avoid needing to preschedule data communications back to

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. LunaNet will also offer navigation services, eg. for orbit determination, and navigation on the lunar surface. Draft interoperability specifications have been issued. The LunaNet Interoperability Specification (LNIS) is the document which publishes the LunaNet standard. LNIS version 4 was published online in September 12, 2022. LNIS version 5 draft for review was provided online for comment late 2023. * NASA's instantiation of LunaNet is called Lunar Communication Relay and Navigation System (LCRNS).LunaNet: Interoperability for Lunar PNT
Slide 4, International Committee on GNSS, October 17, 2023 Madrin, Spain *

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is an

project intending to adopt the specifications.''Project Moonlight'' Oct 2021
/ref>''Moonlight Webinar'' Mar 2022
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's instantiation of LunaNet is called Lunar Navigation Satellite System (LNSS)

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LunaNet Interoperability Specification Documents

NASA's Lunar Communications Relay and Navigation Systems (LCRNS)
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