{"id":166903,"date":"2023-07-05T13:44:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T18:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/new-navigation-system-built-on-cosmic-rays-works-even-when-gps-fails"},"modified":"2023-07-05T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T18:44:04","slug":"new-navigation-system-built-on-cosmic-rays-works-even-when-gps-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/new-navigation-system-built-on-cosmic-rays-works-even-when-gps-fails","title":{"rendered":"New navigation system built on cosmic rays works even when GPS fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-navigation-system-built-on-cosmic-rays-works-even-when-gps-fails.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new navigation system that tracks subatomic particles constantly bombarding Earth could help us get around indoors, underground, and underwater \u2014 all the places GPS fails.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> GPS (the Global Positioning System) is a group of 31 satellites, constantly transmitting radio signals from about 12,500 miles above Earth\u2019s surface. Receivers in phones, cars, planes, and ships then use data from multiple satellites\u2019 signals to calculate their own locations on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>While GPS has revolutionized surface transportation, satellite signals can reflect off solid surfaces, making the navigation system incapable of accurately pinpointing the locations of receivers indoors, underground, and underwater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new navigation system that tracks subatomic particles constantly bombarding Earth could help us get around indoors, underground, and underwater \u2014 all the places GPS fails. The challenge: GPS (the Global Positioning System) is a group of 31 satellites, constantly transmitting radio signals from about 12,500 miles above Earth\u2019s surface. Receivers in phones, cars, planes, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166903","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}