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The Impact of Solar Winds on Navigation Aids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

W. H. Sandford
Affiliation:
Chairman, RIN Technical Committee

Abstract

Recent developments in remote imaging equipment carried on satellites have given the scientific community a vast amount of new information about the Sun and its atmosphere. Media coverage of the remarkable discoveries accompanied by impressive images of the Sun's atmosphere, and linkage to the loss of a television satellite over the United States, have focused public attention on the existence and effects of the Solar Wind. This paper sets out to illustrate the impact of the Solar Wind on radio aids to navigation, and to look at the possible effects on present and proposed systems.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 The Royal Institute of Navigation

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