PORTSMOUTH – The Boatshop at Strawbery Banke is offering a concise two-day course in the theory and practice of basic celestial navigation on June 10 and 11. “Navigating by the Stars” will be taught ...

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" ...

After a nine-year absence from the curriculum at the United States Naval Academy (USNO) and 15 years from Naval ROTC programs, tomorrow's naval officers are once again learning to navigate by the ...

Imagine life without GPS. For those of us old enough, that might not be hard to do. For younger people, it’s almost unimaginable. Now imagine that GPS — for whatever reason — is suddenly unavailable.

AT SEA - It is 4 a.m., a Logistics Support Vessel is out in the ocean and suddenly a flash thunderstorm erupts. The boat's navigation system has just shut down. What happened' There are still two ...

Twenty-five years ago, in 1995, the U.S. Air Force reached a milestone: Its satellite Global Positioning System became fully operational. Today, GPS directs our world, from supertankers to pizza ...