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Chris Howard writes:
> No GPS probably means cesium on the road grader?
There are perfectly good optical gyros for that kind of job, most
expensive planes already have them, and space qualifying them is
not going to be that different from their current qualifications.
Random press-release:
https://investor.emcore.com/news-releases/news-release-details/emcore-awarded-41-million-supplemental-contract-raytheon
That said, colonizing any planet, it would make a lot of sense
to install some kind of high frequency hyberbolic transmitter
coverage with a bidirectional data-channel, as a safety-of-life
capability for time, position, alerts, space-weather etc.
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