I wonder whether you could operate a spacecraft this way? If you're too cheap for a proper star-tracker but you have a camera and an Internet connection, maybe you could e-mail pictures to these guys and get your orientation.
(I'm thinking of a plot point in the pilot to Salvage One, in which the navigation of Elon Musk's Andy Griffith's homebuilt junkyard Moon lander depends on a bootleg connection from Mission Control (Andy's junkyard) to a NASA mainframe. In mid-flight, someone at NASA eventually notices and halts the job, forcing the protagonists to admit their misdeeds and plead with the government for more free computer time.)
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Date: 2015-01-25 10:08 pm (UTC)(I'm thinking of a plot point in the pilot to Salvage One, in which the navigation of
Elon Musk'sAndy Griffith's homebuilt junkyard Moon lander depends on a bootleg connection from Mission Control (Andy's junkyard) to a NASA mainframe. In mid-flight, someone at NASA eventually notices and halts the job, forcing the protagonists to admit their misdeeds and plead with the government for more free computer time.)