The Navy was phasing out celestial navigation, but after some public outrage from retired naval officers they brought it back.

manyatoms 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Does this mean using the star-tracking devices like what satellites have, or like a human paper/pen thing?

	▲	obviouslynotme 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It should mean both. They need to learn how to do it by hand and then learn how to lean on a navigation system. If only GPS fails, then the celestial navigation program fallback runs without a hitch. If shit hits the fan, then they can break out the manual and remember how to do it by hand.

smitty1e 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, it is taught. In school. And, maybe, there is some residual skill out there in the fleet.

Doing a fix, like playing music well at all, takes copious practice.