What is "astrogation"

Usage examples of "astrogation".

Hendrix dug out an old astrogation log and selected a transition-approach problem similar to the one Max had set up earlier.

Uncle Chet had his astrogation manuals at home after he retired and he used to talk with me a lot.

Those of you who are familiar with the theory of astrogation are aware that space is changing constantly, due to the motions of the stars, and that consequently no two trips are exactly alike.

UN to hide the fact that the astrogation maps were really provided by time travellers from our own future.

All Carter and Bogdanovich did was to apply that rationale to the astrogation charts.

Earth, and later, in hope of a new beginning, across the gulfs of the Martian astrogation charts to the world that would later become known as Latimer.

Martian debacle, built and hurled at the nearest of the habitable worlds indicated on the Martian astrogation charts with the bravado of a Molotov cocktail hurled at a tank.

Commander Leary was explaining something on an astrogation screen to Cory and Blantyre.

After only a second, Dru would shoot the answer back at her, and Sora would punch the numbers into the astrogation panel.

Interfaces comparing the views of the different astrogation computers, all concluding that the HP ship was in hot pursuit of a pirate of some kind.

The ship took evasive action, squirting signals at the nearest astrogation node.

He had to use the astrogation antenna to carry this message because the standard mail antenna had been lost.

He alerted the Captain seconds before the watch officer did, then added fresh news from the Guild Astrogation relay.

But then his thoughts slipped back to the little matter of astrogation, and he leaned back in his chair with a quiet sigh which he hoped concealed the tension coiling tighter in his midsection from any of his juniors.

Karen Lowe was an excellent astrogator, but a hyper voyage this long provided a great deal of scope for minor astrogation errors to produce major results.