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Re: Non-electronic use of GPS!
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2002 Jun 23, 19:41 +0100
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2002 Jun 23, 19:41 +0100
Jared Sherman suggested- >George, your comments about GPS simply hit me the right way this morning. > >Perhaps if we (well, US taxpayers at least) were to suggest to our DoD >that they make the GPS satellites larger and shinier, or tether large >reflectors to them, then we could use the GPS satellites themselves as >heavenly bodies that moved at great speed, presenting the opportunity to >take sights directly off the GPS satellites, allowing them to be used for >manual celestial navigation! > >Sounds like a classic raison d'etre for a new goverment program, to launch >a new generation of satellites that would have "optical fialure mode >redundancy support" added to them.================= Great idea, Jared, but just think of making those parallax corrections for such close objects. Parallax for the Moon is difficult enough... George. ------------------------------ george@huxtable.u-net.com George Huxtable, 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. Tel. 01865 820222 or (int.) +44 1865 820222. ------------------------------