Waspie_Dwarf Posted January 16, 2018 #1 Share Posted January 16, 2018 NASA Team First to Demonstrate X-ray Navigation in Space Quote In a technology first, a team of NASA engineers has demonstrated fully autonomous X-ray navigation in space — a capability that could revolutionize NASA’s ability in the future to pilot robotic spacecraft to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond. The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites. Read More: NASA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra. Posted January 16, 2018 #2 Share Posted January 16, 2018 It never ceases to amaze in how NASA keeps forging ahead with the astounding work that they do concerning space and technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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