Multimedia Gallery
- Navigation Methods: Radio Navigation
In a hyperbolic system such as LORAN, a receiver on an aircraft or ship picks up radio signals broadcast by one or more pairs of radio stations spaced hundreds of miles apart.
This illustration depicts the Juno spacecraft arriving at Jupiter in July 2016.
Navigators used radio signals to guide rovers to Mars. This is the target area for the rover Opportunity, which landed on Mars in 2004.
Launch of Pioneer 4 on a Juno II rocket on March 3, 1959.
Lt. Lester Maitland and Lt. Hegenberger with the Fokker C-2 Bird of Paradise.
Uses sidereal (star time), with a day of 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.1 seconds long.
For use with radio time signals.
Length: 17 Minutes, 22 Seconds
The typically austere conditions present at many remote LORAN stations during World War II.