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A First Attempt to Obtain a Fix from Transit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

W. Nicholson
W. Nicholson
Affiliation:
(H.M. Nautical Almanac Office)
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Extract

The Transit system of navigation is based upon the observation, by radio, of artificial satellites. The basis of the method is to determine the line-of-sight velocity of the satellite towards, or away from, the observer at various times as the satellite moves across the sky. With a knowledge of the corresponding orbital positions and velocities of the satellite, the observations can be used to determine, without ambiguity, the position of the observer.

Type
Navigational Satellites
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 1962 , pp. 144 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1962

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