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New Horizons Conducts First Successful Deep Space Stellar Navigation Test
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New Horizons conducts first-ever successful deep space stellar navigation test
On July 4, 2025, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft achieved a remarkable milestone that may forever shift how we navigate deep space. While drifting through the Kuiper Belt, some 438 million miles from Earth, it turned its cameras toward two nearby stars—Prox...
New Horizons conducts first successful deep space stellar navigation test
As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft traveled through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of 438 million miles from Earth, an international team of astronomers used the far-flung probe to conduct an unprecedented experiment: the first-ever successful demonstration of deep space stellar navigation.
New Horizons conducts first-ever successful deep space stellar navigation test - Science Tech Updates
As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft traveled through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of 438 million miles from Earth, an international team of astronomers used the far-flung probe to conduct an unprecedented experiment: the first-ever successful demonstration of deep space stellar navigation. A paper describing the results was accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal. […] The post New Horizons conducts first-ever successful deep space st…
New Horizons conducts first successful deep-space star-based navigation test NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first successful demonstration of star-based navigation using stellar parallax, allowing the team to calculate the spacecraft's position to within 4.1 million miles (6.6 million km).
As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft traveled the Kuiper belt at a distance of 438 million miles from the Earth, an international team of astronomers used the remote probe to conduct an unprecedented experiment: the first successful demonstration of dark space stellar navigation. An article [...]
Deep Space Navigation Without Earth
On April 23, 2020, nearly 7 billion kilometers from Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft turned its camera toward two stars: Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359. Although the mission was not originally designed to test autonomous navigation, the resulting observations marked the first practical demonstration of determining a spacecraft’s position in deep space using starlight alone. […] The post Deep Space Navigation Without Earth appeared first on Abov…
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