This is the challenge facing the U.S. Navy as it tries to bring back celestial navigation. The Navy stopped training its service members to navigate by the stars about a decade ago, focusing ...

The fear of cyberattacks did not factor into the decision to resume celestial navigation training at the Naval Academy, said Lt. Commander Kate Meadows, a naval public affairs officer. But Reardon ...

The Capital Gazette reported celestial navigation training for the fleet stopped in 2006 -- but in 2011, ship navigators' celestial navigation training came back, with training for enlisted ranks ...

Indeed, celestial navigation is still animportant part of a navigator's formal training and while we might immediatelythink of sailors in this regard, the pilot of an aircraft can also sight on ...

Quartermaster 3rd Class Zach Cicerini provides celestial navigation training to sailors aboard the U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer Carney. (MC1 Ryan U. Kledzik/U.S. Navy) For centuries, sailors ...

German officials have considered a similar move. After the US Naval Academy cut celestial navigation training, the practice began to peter out. It ended for the navy at large in 2006, but was ...

Not happening. GPS may have revolutionized the way we navigate, but for years celestial navigation has been undergoing a quiet revolution of its own. The U.S. Navy became less reliant on the ...

Also Friday, the planetarium will have a ceremony for the reception of Neil Armstrong’s medal for completing his celestial navigation training. The reception is at 3:30 p.m. The Armstrong medal ...

The alignment of some megalithic temples in Malta suggests they may have been used to teach sailors how to navigate by the ...

A new celestial navigation system designed for drones could make them harder to detect by eliminating the need for GPS signal emissions. Scientists from the University of South Australia have ...