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2 unusual facts about inertial navigation system


Inertial navigation system

Dr. Goddard's systems were of great interest to contemporary German pioneers including Wernher von Braun.

Philip M'Pherson

In 1955 he was send to MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory run by Charles Stark Draper to work on the development of Inertial navigation systems sharing ideas with pioneers as Norbert Wiener and Harold Chestnut.


Israel Aerospace Industries Tamam Division

Tamam, founded in 1964, is the inertial navigation design and development bureau in Israel specialising in gyro-stabilized electro-optical systems technology.

Lockheed D-21

The camera and its film magazines with an inertial navigation system were carried in a cramped "Q-bay" below the drone's air intake.

Real Time Race

It was fitted with a rotating drum containing 64 lasers for Lidar, a Global Positioning System, an Inertial navigation system and 5 high definition cameras.

Rolex GMT Master II

In addition as Inertial Navigation and Global Positioning System technologies did not yet exist, and aircraft were out of range of normal radio navigation beacons during transoceanic flights, an accurate GMT time source was essential for use with specialist sextants for astronavigation (obtaining geographical position by relative angles of the horizon, the sun and other stars).


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