Space warfare: how the military could be forced to give up GPS and return to navigating by the stars
by Tory Shepherd from Science | The Guardian on (#6N6NE)
If satellites get taken out during war, defence forces will need personnel trained to switch from digital back to analog tools
What would happen if satellite communications were taken down by enemy action during a war?
It's a question governments and militaries around the world are grappling with, and one of the more surprising answers is to train sailors brought up in a digital world to master extremely analog technology such as the use of sextants to navigate by the stars.
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