thousand-grandmas t1_jdzxbtd wrote
Reply to comment by aarkwilde in TIL intercontinental ballistic missiles use celestial navigation to check and correct their course (initially set using internal gyroscopes) while flying outside the Earth's atmosphere. by Captainmanic
I’m not sure gps would even work up there. GPS satellites are obviously a lot further out than LEO and suborbital missiles, so there should be a signal, but it’s probably designed to work best at surface level.
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