On June 10, you printed a short article about the hiring of a new sextant for the Riverside Memorial Cemetery. Herein lies an error. A sextant is a nautical instrument for determining a ship's ...

Kansas is to the ocean as celestial navigation is to the 21st century – seemingly unrelated to one another. But all those things might come together because of a Wichita company. The U.S. Navy ...

A new Digital Sextant has been engineered to provide back-up navigation in the event of failure or malicious adjustment of the GPS system, says manufacturer ScanjetPSM. The Digital Sextant provides a ...

There are countless examples of how an over reliance of GPS navigation and the electronic charting systems, as well as the use of dead reckoning without a known fixed starting point – instead ...