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Old 4th January 2013 | 07:30
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Phone Wind
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There are those in the US military (and presumably those of other countries) who are concerned that GPS is susceptible to jamming and other single-point failures and that other, back-up systems need to be available. Here's an interesting document written by George H Kaplan of the US Naval Observatory on how new technology in celestial navigation techniques could be used to increase accuracy of inertial navigation systems
New Technology for Celestial Navigation

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