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I'm sure there are thousands of datasets of the night sky, and a camera, gyrometer (to get camera angles), clock, and basic image recognition/pattern matching is all you'd need.


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notahacker01/20/2025

yeah. Celestial navigation is a pretty standard thing to study if you're planning on taking up sailing or learning about satellite positioning. Celestial navigation with drones raises more interesting possibilities, but I don't think defence of key strategic assets against drones relies on the possibility it might be too difficult a problem to solve, and there are commercial solutions in the "drone navigation for GNSS denied environments" space. Don't even think the people that jailbreak consumer drones specifically to remove the geofences that prevent them flying near restricted areas get into trouble, at least not until someone spots them flying at the end of a runway or outside a military base.