Anaïs Delépaut

Polytechnic University of Turin | polito · DET - Department of Electronics and Telecommunications

In the near future, international space agencies have planned to achieve significant milestones in investigating the utilization of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) within and beyond the current space service volume up to their application to lunar missions. These initiatives aim to demonstrate the feasibility of GNSS navigation at lunar...

In 2024, a pivotal moment in space navigation occurs as a GNSS receiver journeys to the Moon, marking its inaugural lunar deployment to showcase GNSS navigation feasibility at lunar altitudes. However, the challenge of increasing Dilution Of Precision with greater distance from GNSS constellations remains a significant barrier to the effective use...

The momentum taken by the space sector in the exploration of our Moon pushes private and governmental actors to intensify their efforts for launching missions to our natural satellite. In this context, novel infrastructures and techniques are being studied and experimented to reach an increased autonomy of the positioning and navigation services in...

A new lunar economy of moon exploration by space agencies, private companies and public-private partnerships has emerged, with initiatives involving robots, habitat and transportation. All the proposed missions share similar navigation and communication needs that could be potentially and efficiently satisfied through a dedicated lunar system. In...

Today, deep space missions are navigated and tracked with Deep Space Tracking Stations. However, the navigation operations are relatively expensive and the accuracy is within kilometre range, which needs to be improved for human space exploration. This paper will present initial results of a system study about a Lunar Navigation Satellite System. T...

As a significant number of people and robotics venture into space, infrastructures providing critical services such as GNSS must be considered on a large extra-terrestrial scale to support these explorations and settlements. The next global strategic priority in space, the moon, has dozens of missions planned for this decade, with private as well...

In the context of Deep Space Exploration as planned by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG), the Moon represents a significant step to feed forward what could be done on Mars. Navigation is a key-technology to enable the cis-lunar and lunar volume discovery. The use of Earth Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal...

“We are not going back to the Moon, we are going forward to the Moon” said Jan Woerner, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2018, as reported by Space News. Indeed, in the context of Deep Space Exploration as planned by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG), the Moon represents a significant step to feed...

Internet of Things (IoT) integrates numerous technologies to obtain the location information of the sensors in various ways. The most common localization methods are based on measuring a location dependent parameter such as Received Signal Strength (RSS) or Angle of Arrival (AoA). Then the measured parameters are used to estimate the sensor locatio...