{"id":129553,"date":"2021-10-26T23:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T06:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/this-device-could-usher-in-gps-free-navigation"},"modified":"2021-10-26T23:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T06:22:56","slug":"this-device-could-usher-in-gps-free-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/this-device-could-usher-in-gps-free-navigation","title":{"rendered":"This device could usher in GPS-free navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-device-could-usher-in-gps-free-navigation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let the titanium metal walls or the sapphire windows fool you. It\u2019s what\u2019s on the inside of this small, curious device that could someday kick off a new era of navigation.<\/p>\n<p>For over a year, the avocado-sized vacuum chamber has contained a cloud of atoms at the right conditions for precise navigational measurements. It is the first device that is small, energy-efficient and reliable enough to potentially move quantum sensors\u2014sensors that use quantum mechanics to outperform conventional technologies\u2014from the lab into commercial use, said Sandia National Laboratories scientist Peter Schwindt.<\/p>\n<p>Sandia developed the chamber as a core technology for future <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/navigation+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">navigation systems<\/a> that don\u2019t rely on GPS satellites, he said. It was described earlier this year in the journal AVS Quantum Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t let the titanium metal walls or the sapphire windows fool you. It\u2019s what\u2019s on the inside of this small, curious device that could someday kick off a new era of navigation. For over a year, the avocado-sized vacuum chamber has contained a cloud of atoms at the right conditions for precise navigational measurements. It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}