{"id":84655,"date":"2018-11-11T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/quantum-compass-could-allow-navigation-without-relying-on-satellites"},"modified":"2018-11-11T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:02:22","slug":"quantum-compass-could-allow-navigation-without-relying-on-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/quantum-compass-could-allow-navigation-without-relying-on-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Quantum \u2018compass\u2019 could allow navigation without relying on satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xcqkXkWZhbM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s first quantum accelerometer for navigation has been demonstrated by a team from Imperial College London and M Squared.<\/p>\n<p>Most navigation today relies on a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/global+navigation+satellite\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">global navigation satellite<\/a> system (GNSS), such as GPS, which sends and receives signals from satellites orbiting the Earth. The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/accelerometer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">accelerometer<\/a> is a self-contained system that does not rely on any external signals.<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly important because satellite signals can become unavailable due to blockages such as tall buildings, or can be jammed, imitated or denied \u2013 preventing accurate navigation. One day of denial of the satellite service would cost the UK \u00a31 billion.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-quantum-compass-satellites.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-quantum-compass-satellites.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s first quantum accelerometer for navigation has been demonstrated by a team from Imperial College London and M Squared. Most navigation today relies on a global navigation satellite system (GNSS), such as GPS, which sends and receives signals from satellites orbiting the Earth. The quantum accelerometer is a self-contained system that does not rely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84655","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}