How Science is Finding Ways to Navigate in GPS-Denied Environments
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The U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global announced the winner of its second Global-X Challenge, kicking off a proof of concept of an alternative navigation system in the Arctic using muons with precision equal to that of GPS.
To calculate position without GPS, a team of researchers are using cosmic-ray muons -- subatomic particles can not only pass through the air, but also through rock, buildings and underground.
8 LONDON, UK—The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global, in its sustained mission to become the partner of choice for the worldwide international Science and Technology (S&T) community, will launch the second round of Global-X, a nine-month international science challenge worth up to $500,000, to encourage groundbreaking research from all around the world. The decision comes after a successful 2020 inaugural Global-X Challenge that selected four winning teams with members from Australia, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. These teams are no...