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Spacial Navigation: Three Dimensional Travel

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Believe it or not, All Three of these ships are traveling on an Absolute Heading of 030.0

Contents

Types of Navigation

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  • Relative Bearing: A Flight Vector specified as a combination of Horizontal & Vertical azimuth/elevation coordinates in relation to your ship's attitude. A bearing of 000.0 (read as "Zero-Zero-Zero mark Zero") would be directly in front of your ship.
  • Absolute Heading: A Flight Vector specified as a combination of Horizontal & Vertical azimuth/elevation coordinates relative to the center of the Galaxy. In THIS case, a bearing of 000.0 (read as "Zero-Zero-Zero mark Zero") would mean your ship is on a course to the Center Of The Galaxy.
  • Galactic Coordinates: Standard galactic XYZ coordinates are also acceptable as valid navigational input, although most ship's personnel find this cumbersome and only use it for maneuvering inside a Nebula where sensors won't allow standard course plotting, or inside confined Spaces (such as a Space Dock), while using Reaction Control Systems (RCS) thrusters. (See Reaction Control Systems)

Relative Bearing

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Bearing

Divided into 360 Degrees around the
Horizontal Plane of the ship.

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Mark

Divided into 360 Degrees around the
Vertical Plane of the ship.




Examples

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Another vessel's Horizontal position in relation to your direction of travel is Bearing 301.



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Another vessel's Vertical position in relation to your direction of travel is Mark 10.



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This vessel's relative position in relation to your direction of travel is Bearing 329 Mark 322.

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This vessel's position is Bearing 087 Mark ___ .
Answer: 30



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This vessel's position is approximately Bearing 19 Mark ___ .
Answer: 38



Resources

  1. Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual
  2. Federation Databank
  3. Babelfish Translations To assist in translatiing Federation Database Information.




Rob Johnson, IC 2004-2007
14 May 2007

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