The mid-20 th century revealed a truly disruptive shift in technologies for long-distance positioning and navigation. The compass, sextant, and clock were largely superseded by electronic system, ...

On a blustery February morning in 1953, a B-29 took off from Massachusetts’ Bedford airport and pointed its nose along the great-circle route to Los Angeles. There were eight people aboard the big ...

The latest Atlas ICBM to rise from Cape Canaveral flew, to the naked eye, like many a previous successful Atlas. But it was very different. For the first time no umbilical cord of guiding radio ...

Boeing Defense Space and Security, St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a $311,805,780 ceiling increase modification to previously awarded contract for Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits.

PHOENIX, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON), with funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is creating the next generation of inertial sensor ...

Compact weapons need compact guidance systems. Atlantic Inertial Systems, a unit of Goodrich Corp., designed a 1-cu.-in. inertial measurement device called MinIM. The component weighs less than 2 oz., ...

HEATH — Boeing, which has repaired and maintained inertial guidance systems in Heath since 1996 for the U.S. Air Force, will continue the work here at least 18 more years, the company announced Monday ...

Click to open image viewer. This system, manufactured by Honeywell, contained a set of gyroscopes that assisted in the guidance, navigation and control of the Gemini spacecraft. This specimen was ...

Honeywell introduced the i700 within its HGuide line—an inertial measurement unit engineered to deliver precise performance for autonomous systems across uncrewed air, ground, and marine platforms. By ...