Spacecraft utilised x-rays from pulsars to navigate in deep space
Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a way that a spacecraft can use pulsar star signals to navigate in space. The remnants of a collapsed neutron star, called a pulsar, are magnetically charged and can spin anywhere from one rotation per second to hundreds of rotations per second. These celestial bodies, each […]
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