Armed Forces News

The rationale for teaching celestial navigation Naval Academy midshipmen is based on more than mere nostalgia. If hackers disrupt global positioning system (GPS) satellites and computers, navigators and fliers would have no other means of charting their courses. A Feb. 12 report on the Website Sciencealert.com cites the Navy’s desire to have a contingency plan in place in that eventuality. “The Navy is realizing that the old way of doing things had one thing going for it: security,” Sciencealert.com reported. Users of celestial navigation can plot arrival times within two minutes.