Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For thousands of years, humans navigated by comparing their ...

Over the course of a decade, the Apollo program (in addition to landing humans on the Moon six times!) produced an incredible array of technical breakthroughs and achievements. But many people do not ...

What it's used for: Navigating the high seas after all the other equipment breaks Claiming to have the world's best sextant doesn't sound like much of a boast — it's like bragging about a late-model ...

There's nothing mystical or complicated about a sextant. All it is is a device that measures the angle between two objects. The sextant makes use of two mirrors. With this sextant, one of the mirrors ...

A sextant is an historic piece of navigational equipment with a name that teenagers enjoy pronouncing. It also happens to be the name of longtime product from the Swiss watch brand Juvenia. I actually ...

How come, three years after the completion of the South Portland addressing project, there are still street signs within the new South Portland sextant with the “SW” prefix on the street signs?

A sextant is the antique version of a GPS. And in his basement workshop, Ridge White is one of the few people in the world still servicing and repairing the instruments. “Sarah,” a replica of an ...

The Sextant Group been acquired by NV5 Global (Nasdaq: NVEE), a provider of professional and technical engineering and consulting solutions. As part of NV5’s Engineering & Technology group, this new ...