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Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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Does anyone know how much more accurate this is compared to other interferometer gyroscopes like fiber-optics?
as far as i had read about it, accurate enough to rely on for a whole flight without worrying about drift
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add3854
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58381-6
I'm not gonna do the math. But it seems those fiber once have a longer path relatively speaking, so higher latency