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TROY, N.Y. — In order for future lunar exploration missions to be successful and land more precisely, engineers must equip spacecraft with technologies that allow them to “see” where they are and travel to where they need to be. Finding specific locations amid the moon’s complicated topography is not a simple task. In research recently published in the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, a multidisciplinary team of engineers demonstrated how a series of lunar images can be used to infer the direction that a spacecraft is moving. This technique, sometimes called visual ...

Rick: one of the smallest airline carriers in the country taking a big step into the future of airline travel. alaska airlines testing out brand-new gps landing technology. dan springer following this live in seattle. the way air traffic controllers guide commercial pilots in for landing is about to get a complete overhaul. real interesting here. for 60 years the federal aviation administration has relied on radar technology to track planes and keep them out of trouble. that is good to give way to tkpwhrebl positioning satellites. alaska airlines will begin testing the new system at tacoma a...