How a Sextant Works There's nothing mystical or complicated about a sextant. All it is is a device that measures the angle between two objects. The sextant makes use of two mirrors.

In order to navigate, pilots used a combination of time-honored navigational tools, such as sextants and radio to determine their positions.

There's no way around it: Celestial navigation using a sextant is a complex and involved process that involves a fair amount of calculating, correcting, referring to tables, knowledge of the ...

To navigate the ocean, a person plots sextant measurements on charts and tables and uses a nautical almanac to apply the data.

Chronicles the author's first transatlantic voyage, when he learned to navigate using a sextant, and traces how this indispensible navigational tool was used by daring mariners to explore and map the ...

And so service men and women are being taught the absolute basics, going back to using the planets and stars and a sextant to find direction through a long series of mathematical calculations.

US Navy recruits to learn how to navigate using the stars as America grows increasingly worried about possible hacking of computer navigation systems ...

NASA's SEXTANT experiment collects data from dozens of our galaxy's pulsars to accurately pinpoint its position anywhere in the solar system.

Object Details Manufacturer Kollsman Instrument Company Summary The Apollo spacecraft contained a separate, inertial guidance and navigation system that enabled its crew to navigate from Earth orbit ...