17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
6:17 p.m.
On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Steve Schear wrote:
Craft are free to use any navigational technology, but must be autonomous from launch to delivery. To aid navigation I was considering the design of a substitute differential GPS beacon functionally interchangable with those offered by the USCG. My device would work on a different frequency, possibly using very wideband direct sequence spread spectrum (for low probability of intercept/detection) and be actuated by the missile as it neared the target in order to refine its position.
While in St. Louis on business, I talked with two guys writing the operations manual for a new Navy missile built by a local defense contractor. The missile was using GPS for targeting. --Lucky