New Horizons just completed its first successful stellar navigation test in deep space, a groundbreaking moment for ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

NASA’s New Horizons successfully used stellar parallax from deep space to pinpoint its location, pioneering a new method of ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully conducted the first-ever deep space stellar navigation test, while traversing the Kuiper Belt.

NASA is preparing to fly a Deep Space Atomic Clock, or DSAC, demonstration that will revolutionize the way we conduct deep-space navigation by enabling a spacecraft to calculate its own timing and ...

The most precise clock ever flown in space, NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, could improve spacecraft navigation throughout the solar system. This illustration shows the spacecraft carrying the ...

This requires spacecraft to wait for navigation commands from Earth rather than making those decisions on board and in real-time. “Navigating in deep space requires measuring vast distances using our ...

Deep space navigation is going old-school. The International Space Station resupply mission that blasted off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in the predawn hours of May 21 carried high-tech ...

NASA is set to launch an incredible new atomic clock into orbit on a Falcon Heavy today (June 24) in a technology demonstration mission that could transform the way humans explore space.

This is how we’ll validate DSAC’s utility for deep space one-way radio navigation. In the late 1700s, navigating the high seas was forever changed by John Harrison’s development of the H4 ...

In Deep Space, Astronauts Will Use Celestial Navigation Like Columbus and Drake Just because we're building the technology for space travel doesn't mean we won't get lost. by Neel V. Patel ...