[Interview+] How to Find Your Way Home in Space
If you were dropped in a random place in space, how would you find your way home? New Horizons tackled this problem with a first interstellar navigation demonstration. Using parallax in real time to determine its position in space. How did they pull it off and what other interesting things can spacecraft do? Finding out in this interview.
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Comments (5)
He's very eloquent. I like his style of communicating.
What's that globe behind Dr Tod Lauer? It looks like a globe of the 'One Piece' world but I don't think so, due to the details in dark blue. Maybe some other ideas?
Navigating on Earth, some people never get lost, ha!
to me that conversation delved into a classical VS romantic archetype ..in space! My viewpoint of listening to an astronomer vs an astrophysicist really clicked in with this interview!
Btw, loved the chat, you have an interesting job. As much as some may hate it, I think you’ll find that the Ego’s are necessary to drive conversation or pull people out of their shell to contridict and provide concrete analysis of the data. I guess you might well ask should the Egos get paid more to do this is often at the heart of it all and that is a fine balance I think we’ve got wrong at the moment in a lot of areas