How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar
How do you sail when you ’re float out in deep space ? By pulsar , that ’s how . In outer quad ( and even in Earth orbit ) GPS does n’t do you a whole lot of good , so space scientists at the design navigation league in Monterey , CA this week have put together a mates ofpapersdesigned to show that a ballistic capsule could pilot autonomously by triangulating off the X - ray light give off from pulsar scattered throughout the population ....