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China to launch world’s first X-ray pulsar navigation satellite

Submit on Thursday, October 13th, 2016 22:57

The China Academy of Space Technology has announced plans to launch the world’s first X-ray pulsar navigation satellite (XPNAV-1) in November, Xinhua reported. The move brings autonomous spacecraft navigation and a more precise deep-space GPS one step closer to reality.

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