Sentences with phrase «using celestial navigation»

Using celestial navigation, an intimate knowledge of tides and currents, and following the flight patterns of birds, their reach...

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To orient themselves they used basic celestial navigation, which means that they used information from the stars and from the sun to orient themselves.

Peter started sailing at 26 around Europe and has since completed a 5 - year circumnavigation of the world using only celestial navigation (no GPS on that trip!)

: As all dates are + / - 2.5 billion years, the author strongly advises against using this chronology for purposes of exegesis, carbon - 14 dating or celestial navigation.

(6) Any vehicle used or designed for flight or navigation in space and on the registry of the United States pursuant to the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies and the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space, while that vehicle is in flight, which is from the moment when all external doors are closed on Earth following embarkation until the moment when one such door is opened on Earth for disembarkation or in the case of a forced landing, until the competent authorities take over the responsibility for the vehicle and for persons and property aboard.