A navigation odyssey
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ESA published a piece imagining how Odysseus's journey home to Ithaca, a roughly 530 km trip that took him ten years in Homer's The Odyssey, might have unfolded with a modern satellite navigation system like Galileo available to him.
Homer’s The Odyssey chronicles Odysseus’s journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. A distance of approximately 530 km as the crow flies, yet it takes Odysseus ten years and countless adventures to arrive—without his crew or his boat. What could Odysseus’s journey have looked like if he had modern-day satellite navigation systems, such as Galileo, at his disposal?
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