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What are GPS sats if not artificial stars used for celestial nav? (In a roundabout way, no pun intended)
by hammock 2y ago
What are GPS sats if not artificial stars used for celestial nav? (In a roundabout way, no pun intended)
- zokier 2y agoGPS navigation is based on measuring the distance between observer and the satellites to triangulate position. Celestial navigation does not care about distance to stars at all, in many ways stars are considered to be infinitely far away.