http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/blog/interstellar-navigation-problem-20/ A Fusion Starship Study Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:45:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/blog/interstellar-navigation-problem-20/comment-page-1/#comment-1874 Patrick Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:58:03 +0000 http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/blog/?p=73#comment-1874 To navigate in space there are currently about three main points that can be used for navigation. Galaxies can be seen and made out with telescopes, but they would only be able to limit your position to within a few thousand light years and so not very useful with current technology. Black holes, like the one at the center of or galaxy and other stellar black holes could probable limit your position to within a few hundred to a few light years depending on the number of black holes you use and with one's, this wouldn't currently work since the number of black hole that we know about is quite limited. The third and most probable and most problematic way is to use pulsars, which have very regular signals but also only emit thous signals on a very strict path of there rotation. There are a few other ways that might work depending on how some technologies work out, like the thermal map that the WISE satellite is making, the LISA gravity wave satellite constellation, and the universal map of mass. To navigate in space there are currently about three main
points that can be used for navigation. Galaxies can be seen and
made out with telescopes, but they would only be able to limit your
position to within a few thousand light years and so not very
useful with current technology. Black holes, like the one at the
center of or galaxy and other stellar black holes could probable
limit your position to within a few hundred to a few light years
depending on the number of black holes you use and with one’s, this
wouldn’t currently work since the number of black hole that we know
about is quite limited. The third and most probable and most
problematic way is to use pulsars, which have very regular signals
but also only emit thous signals on a very strict path of there
rotation. There are a few other ways that might work depending on
how some technologies work out, like the thermal map that the WISE
satellite is making, the LISA gravity wave satellite constellation,
and the universal map of mass.

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