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n. The determination of the three-dimensional position and velocity of a spacecraft (relative to a frame of reference)
Usage examples of "space navigation".
Revolts of shipboard machines became the plague of space navigation.
Something unique in the history of space navigation must have been behind that call, probably a compose-yourselves-for-the-inevitable-end speech by McNulty.
I track the battle wreckage and other deep-space navigation hazards.
He was the recorder of the operational events, which was a continuous source of 'learning curve' information for improving the safety of space navigation.
Although this region is called the Asteroid Belt, the asteroids are not strewn so thickly that they represent a hazard to space navigation.
Think of how many people would be involved in preparing and launching warheads, in space navigation, in detonating warheads, in checking what orbital perturbation each nuclear explosion has made, in herding the asteroid so it is on an impact trajectory with Earth, and so on.