Deep space navigation is going old-school. The International Space Station resupply mission that blasted off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in the predawn hours of May 21 carried high-tech ...

"This demonstration is a breakthrough for future deep space exploration," said SEXTANT Project Manager Jason Mitchell, an aerospace technologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, ...

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In a technology first, a team of 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 ...

Even though we live in the high-tech GPS era when it comes to getting around, it turns out the Royal Canadian Navy still trains with the very low-tech sextant for navigation. The sextant, a tool that ...

There's no way around it: Celestial navigation using a sextant is a complex and involved process that involves a fair amount of calculating, correcting, referring to tables, knowledge of the heavens ...