• Using the Milky Way as a navigation tool

  • Sep 20 2024
  • Length: 14 mins
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Using the Milky Way as a navigation tool

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  • In 2013, Swedish researchers discovered that beetles used the Milky Way to navigate at night, realising its fixed point in the sky could help them roll dung balls in a straight line.

    Now, a decade later, researchers at the University of South Australia (UniSA) are using that breakthrough as inspiration for a new project aimed at improving navigation for satellites.

    They have developed a computer vision system that reliably measures the orientation of the Milky Way, which could one day lead to a back-up method of stabilising satellites in low light.

    Here, Professor Javaan Chahl, who oversaw the initiative, discusses how the plan works.

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