Satellite navigation systems

Satellite navigation systems

In place of the cockpit, where the pilot of a fighter plane would normally sit, is the navigation system -- the brains of the aircraft. The Predator carries the satellite control system to communicate with the operator who is sometimes thousands of miles away.

February 7, 2013 5:12 PM PST

Photo by: Screenshot/PBS/NOVA

| Caption by: James Martin

 

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