838: Using Pulsars to Navigate in Space with Dr. Zach Putnam
Universe Today Podcast
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Do X Rays Go Down Fibroptic Cables?
A future instrument could be shaped like the positions of pulsars themselves. It is receiving data, using some kind of plate solving to just orient itself so that it's getting the data streams into the different detectors. And then it is simultaneously gathering data from all of those pulsars and then running their calculations at the same time.
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