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NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings

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NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings

NASA · Official source · Nov 4, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) guidance, navigation, and control payload completed simulated lunar descent and landing…