Even at sea, GPS signals are increasingly at risk of being disrupted by electronic warfare measures. To combat the problem, the Navy is upgrading its inertial gyrocompass navigation system for surface ...
Back in the old days, finding out your location on Earth was a pretty involved endeavor. You had to look at stars, use fancy gimballed equipment to track your motion, or simply be able to track your ...
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Charlottesville, Virginia, is being awarded an $8,346,102 firm-fixed-price contract for the new manufacture of MK39 MOD 3A Ring Laser Gyro Inertial Navigation Systems ...
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has won a contract to upgrade the inertial navigation systems (INS) for the Swedish navy’s submarines. Under the contract, awarded by Kockums AB, Northrop ...
Italian scientists dip deep for laser experiments to measure Earth’s rotational effects at greatest ever sensitivity. GINGERino ring laser gyroscope at the underground labs of INFN in Gran Sasso, ...
ALHAMBRA, CA, April 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EMCORE Corporation (Nasdaq: EMKR), a leading provider of advanced mixed-signal products that serve the aerospace & defense and broadband communications ...
The rotating-mass gyroscope, which lies at the heart of inertial measurement units (IMUs), has served very successfully from the 1930s to the 1970s, guiding astronauts, spacecraft, missiles, and more.
Gyroscope designs used in inertial navigation systems (INS) fall into three basic groups: the classic spinning-rotor mechanical gyro (still in use in specialized situations due to its superior ...
Renowned physicist Frederick Aronowitz, world expert on laser gyro technology, died on December 17, 2022, in Belmont, MA. He was 87 years old. Anyone who has flown in a commercial jetliner, starting ...