Early in the morning on 3/3/2025 at 8 am, the French Lunar Laser Ranging Observatory at Grasse, France has received the first returns from NGLR-1.
A list of the early returns may be found below:
- 3/3/2025 MeO Grasse, France
- 2025 03 03 12:30 UTC NGLR-1
- 2025 03 03 12:40 UTC NGLR-1
- 2025 03 03 12:50 UTC NGLR-1
They determined that the distance to the Moon was 358727.670 km with an accuracy of a few parts per trillion (a fraction of a millimeter).
In addition, right after that we received more measurements from Wettzell in Germany and Grasse, France:
- 3/4/2025 WLRS Wettzell, Germany
- 2025 03 04 12:30 UTC NGLR-1 IR
- 2025 03 04 12:40 UTC NGLR-1 IR
- 2025 03 04 12:50 UTC NGLR-1 IR
- 3/4/2025 MeO Grasse, France
- 2025 03 03 12:30 UTC NGLR-1 IR
- 2025 03 03 12:40 UTC NGLR-1 IR
- 2025 03 03 12:50 UTC NGLR-1 IR
- 2025 03 03 12:30 UTC NGLR-1 Green
- 2025 03 03 12:40 UTC NGLR-1 Green
- 2025 03 03 12:50 UTC NGLR-1 Green
- 7845_nglr1_crd_20250304_1710_00.np2
- 7845_nglr1_crd_20250304_1758_00.np2
- 7845_nglr1_crd_20250304_1759_00.np2