This group covers deep space navigation, stellar cartography and vessel helm operations. It's for anyone interested in how we get where we need to go and how we get around once we're there.
Submitted by Chief_Sonya on December 7, 2017 - 14:48
Reference material for navigation has been posted in LIAIS, which has been written to support training and operations. The current material covers impulse (sublight) navigation, which is the mode where most combat will happen (for example).
Details of the vessel's navigation systems and the technical framework they use will be published soon. One issue that has arisen is around the orientation of the 3D Cartesian grid used for navigation, which seems less suited to describing movement when you're inside a vessel rather than looking at it from some external viewpoint.
Propulsion and navigation prototype systems are being delivered and before we got too far with the associated documentations I thought this would be a good time for a debate on the terminology we’re going to use for navigation.
There are two possible sources of tradition on this: navy and airforce. Space efforts were traditionally run by the airforces of the world and so that was the source of a lot of the terminology used in space. The vessels were small and maneuvers were tight, making them more like aircraft to fly (quite literally in the case of the Shuttle).
