In a recent contest, teams of researchers competed to see who could train an AI model to best pilot a spaceship. The results ...

New Horizons just completed its first successful stellar navigation test in deep space, a groundbreaking moment for ...

NASA’s New Horizons successfully used stellar parallax from deep space to pinpoint its location, pioneering a new method of ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

To improve the positioning accuracy for deep space probes, this paper presents the basic principle of radio imaging firstly, and then establishes the phase referencing model for them. Phase ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can ...

Delay/disruption-tolerant networking (DTN) is widely recognized as a key internetworking technology for implementing a space system of systems (SoS). Aimed at being the main data transport protocol of ...

En route to the asteroid system Didymos, Hera will reach its closest point to Mars on March 12. It will use the gravitational pull of the Red Planet to create a slingshot effect, accelerating the ...

Researchers believe they now have the answer: stellar navigation. This would make the Bogong moth the first insect to use the stars for long-distance navigation as it makes its extended migratory ...