Astrogation

Astrogation was the science of safely and reliably traversing space in a starship.Heir to the Jedi Throughout galactic history,Tarkin cartographersAdventures in Wild Space: The Escape and scouts traveled between star systems in search of more reliable and safer hyperspace routes free of dangerous obstacles, advancing the science of astrogation. Traveling through hyperspace required a navigation computer to make precise calculations in order to follow these lanes and avoid crashing into "mass shadows," the gravitational wells surrounding massive celestial bodies such as planets. Often, ships had to navigate by way of hyperspace buoys or stop at waypoints to calculate another hyperspace vector.Star Wars Rebels: Steps Into Shadow
==Appearances==
===Non-canon appearances===
*Rogue One: Recon A Star Wars 360 Experience
==Sources==
*Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary
*Star Wars: Aliens of the Galaxy
*Créatures et peuples de la galaxie
*Dawn of Rebellion
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==Notes and references==
Category:Scientific specialties