{"id":75149,"date":"2018-01-11T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T18:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/nasa-team-first-to-demonstrate-x-ray-navigation-in-space"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:04:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:04:02","slug":"nasa-team-first-to-demonstrate-x-ray-navigation-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/nasa-team-first-to-demonstrate-x-ray-navigation-in-space","title":{"rendered":"NASA team first to demonstrate X-ray navigation in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-team-first-to-demonstrate-x-ray-navigation-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a technology first, a team of NASA engineers has demonstrated fully autonomous X-ray navigation in space\u2014a capability that could revolutionize NASA\u2019s ability in the future to pilot robotic spacecraft to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/millisecond+pulsars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">millisecond pulsars<\/a> could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/space\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">space<\/a>\u2014similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/navigation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">navigation<\/a>, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis demonstration is a breakthrough for future deep space exploration,\u201d said SEXTANT Project Manager Jason Mitchell, an aerospace technologist at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \u201cAs the first to demonstrate X-ray navigation fully autonomously and in real-time in space, we are now leading the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-01-nasa-team-x-ray-space.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;01-nasa-team-x-ray-space.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a technology first, a team of NASA engineers has demonstrated fully autonomous X-ray navigation in space\u2014a capability that could revolutionize NASA\u2019s ability in the future to pilot robotic spacecraft to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond. The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75149","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75159,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75149\/revisions\/75159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}