Mod Request: Navigation

[Moesly_Armlis]

After seeing this challenge

and having experience from the caveman challenge has made me interested in navigation based on observation.

To not  upgrade the tracking complex makes traveling difficult.  There is not much issue for Kerbin's moons but one can get lost in the interplanetary space.

Calculating an insertion to another planet can and does work. 

The way I understand to navigate is that there would be over a period of time to gather many sightings of the target and other known bodies and based on this and the location of the vessel a maneuver could be calculated.

Does this already exist in some other mod?

Can a mod be created that could somehow offer this type of navigation?

 

[Moesly_Armlis]

After some brief research on navigation in interplanetary space this video sums up the idea and equipment required.

See time 6:45 and 16 minutes. 

Navigation through sighting is of interest only as the Kerbin based navigation is of course the upgraded Tracking Station.  The computer seems to create a maneuver node similar to the upgraded Mission Control.

Guidance and Navigation Station Components:

Scanning Telescope

Sextant

Digital Computer

Inertial Measurement Unit

Using the Scanning Telescope and the Sextant to obtain course correction information that the Digital Computer and Inertial Measurement Unit then create a maneuver node. Multiple sightings increase the accuracy.

The Scanning Telescope and Sextant seem to be dependent on each other and could be one part.  The Digital Computer preforms the calculation and sets the direction while the Inertial Measurement Unit measures the delta V required and produced.

It should be possible to to use the Scanning Telescope and Sextant only and the calculations are done by the navigator.

 

Edited June 26, 2016 by MoeslyArmlis