The Navy is once again teaching celestial navigation as a back up in case GPS systems become unusable. Celestial navigation, sometimes referred to as astronavigation, is a way for a navigator to use ...

On her final flight, Amelia Earhart relied on dead reckoning, celestial navigation, and radio signals to cross the Pacific.

Tucked away on the sixth floor of Butler Library lies an exploration of the past, present, and future of celestial navigation. “Celestial Navigation,” curated by Jeannie Rhyu, CC ’17, SoA ’26, opened ...

A Feb. 22 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims a form of navigation that relies on celestial objects such as the sun, moon and stars proves the Earth is flat and stationary. "The Ancients ...

Celestial Navigation (CELNAV) is one skill that has not been formally taught to Navy officers, depending on one's commissioning source, for more than 15 years. Based on direction from the Chief of ...

Two new training modules for celestial navigation and geodesy and maps are now accessible to fleet users via the MetEd portal at https://www.meted.ucar.edu. "Principles of Celestial Navigation" ...

It was how Odysseus sailed the seas, how Columbus reached the Americas, and how Lawrence of Arabia found his way across the vast, featureless deserts of the Middle East. For millennia, travellers used ...

The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo 12 was disabled by lightning, the ...

For thousands of years, celestial navigation was only practiced by men in Polynesia. Now women are reclaiming traditions that are rightly theirs. © 2017 POLYNESIAN VOXAGIN ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. This article contains minor spoilers. One of the ...