Posted on Nov 27, 2021
The Navy is testing a GPS-like device that doesn’t require satellites
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The Navy is researching a new technology that could help sailors and Marines navigate in places where the Global Positioning System just doesn’t work.
The Navy is testing a GPS-like device that doesn’t require satellites
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Unlike GPS signals, cosmic ray muons are a natural source of radiation that can pass through rock, buildings and earth and can be used at high latitudes north of the Arctic Circle, where GPS satellites do not work well due to their orbital constraints, the Office of Naval Research wrote in a press release on Tuesday."...
..."Unlike GPS signals, cosmic ray muons are a natural source of radiation that can pass through rock, buildings and earth and can be used at high latitudes north of the Arctic Circle, where GPS satellites do not work well due to their orbital constraints, the Office of Naval Research wrote in a press release on Tuesday."...
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Cool, that sounds like something that they might be able to use lots of purposes.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel As I have mentioned previously on Rally Point: my late Angelic father: The Hon. James Sloane Higgins served in the Navy; during World War II.
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