New Horizons Achieves First Autonomous Interstellar Navigation Test
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully demonstrated the first-ever deep space stellar navigation by using stellar parallax to determine its position relative to nearby stars, achieving an accuracy of about 4.1 million miles, marking a significant milestone in interstellar navigation technology.
- New Horizons conducts first-ever successful deep space stellar navigation test Phys.org
- Stellar Cartography: A Demonstration Of Interstellar Navigation Using New Horizons astrobiology.com
- New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation New Scientist
- New Horizons mission provides the first-ever demonstration of autonomous interstellar navigation Daily Kos
- New Approach For Interstellar Navigation Was Just Tested On A Spacecraft 9 Billion Kilometers Away IFLScience
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