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What if you picked four stars, e.g., A, B, C, & D?  Then measure four star angles (like lunar distance) e.g., AB, AC, AD, and BC taken at very accurate times.  Send these in your distress message.  NASA ought to be able to work out a rough position in space with these.  Unfortunately, the tetrahedron produced will be giant sized, because your sextant is so poor.  However, if your times are good, some clever NASA scientist (or a 16-year-old computer kid) will be able to shrink the rings until the tetrahedron becomes a point in space and also tell you your sextant error.  Therefore, in my opinion, very accurate times plus measuring your angle from high to low (or low to high) each time to make your sextant error consistent are the most necessary requirement.

Funnily enough, I had a feeling I’d seen a three-view drawing of your spaceship online a couple of weeks ago, but an evening’s searching for it came up with nothing, so perhaps I was dreaming.  However, with all those square portholes, it appears that AI still needs to inform itself of Coffin’s law.  DaveP