An artist鈥檚 representation of high-energy cosmic rays colliding with Earth MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Alamy
Navigation via cosmic ray muons could supplement GPS in high latitudes, as well as working underwater and underground.
The US Office of Naval Research聽(ONR) has awarded a contract to UK company Geoptic Infrastructure Investigations to demonstrate navigation in the Arctic where GPS coverage is poor due to positioning of GPS satellites run by the US military, which are mostly at lower latitudes.
The firm鈥檚 Muometric Positioning System (muPS) uses聽muons made by cosmic rays聽instead of the radio signals from satellites used by …
