| ▲ | Gladys West's vital contributions to GPS technology(en.wikipedia.org) | |
| 49 points by hackernj 3 days ago | 4 comments | ||
| ▲ | NelsonMinar an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
For anyone not reading the article, she did fundamental work measuring the geoid, the non-spherical corrections to Earth's shape that is fundamental to very accurate GPS positioning. Here's some pictures of the EGM2008 geoid we use today: https://francis.naukas.com/files/2023/07/D20230711-Computers... | ||
| ▲ | netdevphoenix 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Glad she finally got some recognition. | ||
| ▲ | RickJWagner 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Heres her page on the Space Force “Space Pioneers” page. https://www.spaceforce.mil/Portals/2/Documents/Space_Pioneer... West was a person of great faith. "I think everybody should have God in their life," Gladys says. "I can just about see the complete circle and I can go back and I can look and see what He did and where He put me and where all along. And I would think it's amazing that I didn't understand it at the time, exactly what was happening, but He was there and He was doing it." https://cbn.com/news/us/everybody-should-have-god-their-life... | ||
| ▲ | rafram 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
(She passed away two days ago.) | ||
