Scientists work out way to use pulsars to provide self navigation to spacecraft in solar system
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 08:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —A trio of German space scientists has worked out a way to use pulsars as navigation aids for space vehicles traveling in the solar system. As they describe in their paper uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, the method relies on reading information from at least three pulsars to triangulate location information.