Pulsar and Magnetar Navigation with Fermi/GBM and GECAM

The determination of the absolute and relative position of a spacecraft is critical for its operation, observations, data analysis, scientific studies, as well as deep-space exploration in general. A spacecraft that can determine its own absolute position autonomously may perform better than those that must rely on transmission solutions. In this work, we report an absolute navigation accuracy of ∼20 km using 16 day Crab pulsar data observed with Fermi’s Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). In addition, we propose a new method with the inverse process of the triangulation for joint navigation using repeated bursts like those from the magnetar SGR J1935+2154 observed by the Gravitational-wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor and GBM.