"ESA's Lunar Pathfinder mission will help verify the performance of new lunar navigation techniques in development at NASA," said JJ Miller, Deputy Director of Policy and Strategic Communications for NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "This project is built on the long collaboration between NASA and ESA within the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG), a UN forum that focuses on ensuring interoperability amongst GNSS service providers"