The 20 Years That Lost the Sextant

The latest version of the Inmarsat 4 satellite.

New ways of doing things tend to insinuate themselves into an industry’ s consciousness until one day you get out of bed and realise that everything has changed. For centuries the sextant was the most important navigation tool after the chart and compass. Suddenly today it is hard to find ...

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