Location:Insight-HXMT Tests Pulsar Navigation “Cosmic Lighthouses” Aid Deep Space Exploration
Insight-HXMT Tests Pulsar Navigation “Cosmic Lighthouses” Aid Deep Space Exploration
Release date:2020-03-05 10:35:23 Author:HXMT

    Satellite orbit has been determined autonomously within 10 km (3σ) by observing an X-ray pulsar with the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) satellite, according to a study by Chinese scientists just published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement.

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