On 3/28/12 1:11 PM, Tom Knox wrote:
My thought was to rec it in space before it is degraded and perhaps rec it in the x-ray region. A few Geo Sync Sats doing a correction algorithm for earth position vs the pulsars would not be that complex. Thomas Knox
What you're talking about is generically called the X-Nav deep space navigation system. googling NASA XNAV turns up a lot "XNAV holds great potential for NASA as an enabling technology for fully autonomous interplanetary navigation and..."
The problem is that nobody has a small, light, X-ray detector that is good enough. Invent one and people will beat a path to your door and fling some money at you (not billions, but certainly enough to tinker on X-ray detectors for the rest of your life)
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