arxivastro-ph.EPastro-ph.IMeess.SPeess.SY2026-07-07
The Cost of Lunar South-Polar Geometry, and Surface Beacons as the Efficient Fix: A Dilution-of-Precision Analysis
Lunar PNT architectures, NASA's Lunar Augmented Navigation Service (LANS), ESA's Moonlight, and allied concepts, place a small number of satellites in elliptical lunar frozen orbits (ELFO) to serve the south-polar region prioritized for exploration. We report a result that refram…