Zagros 7 and the jumpgate

[Elric]

There must be other ways of navigating without using man made hyperspace beacons.

Aren't hyperspace beacons just for navigating inside hyperspace? Not many natural landmarks in there

 

[zootle]

This taken from the Lurkers Guide for the episode A Distant Star.

Navigation in hyperspace involves locking onto jumpgate signals. There seem to be no natural reference points in hyperspace, so a ship must keep its own internal navigation references or lock onto the signals of nearby gates or it will become lost. Until this episode, no ship lost in hyperspace had ever been rescued.