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A sextant is an historic piece of navigational equipment with a name that teenagers enjoy pronouncing. It also happens to be the name of longtime product from the Swiss watch brand Juvenia. I actually ...

Over the course of a decade, the Apollo program (in addition to landing humans on the Moon six times!) produced an incredible array of technical breakthroughs and achievements. But many people do not ...

NASA astronaut Alexander Gerst learns how to use a sextant. “I learned how to navigate after the stars using a sextant,” said Gerst. “It’s actually a test for a backup nav method for #Orion & future ...

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The Sextant Group been acquired by NV5 Global (Nasdaq: NVEE), a provider of professional and technical engineering and consulting solutions. As part of NV5’s Engineering & Technology group, this new ...

A new Digital Sextant has been engineered to provide back-up navigation in the event of failure or malicious adjustment of the GPS system, says manufacturer ScanjetPSM. The Digital Sextant provides a ...

Sir Arthur Rostron used the navigational sextant to locate survivors of the Titanic A sextant used at sea in the race to rescue survivors of the Titanic has sold at auction for £66,000. The navigation ...