The functions of guidance, navigation, and control are vital to all forms of air and space flight. The Space History collections in this area attempt to reflect that significance and illustrate the ...

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 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 The compass, sextant, and clock were largely superseded by electronic system, ...

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.

We examine Ukraine’s FP-5 Flamingo, a newly revealed long-range ground-launched cruise missile that promises deep-strike ...

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., ...

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 ...

NASA expands the use of its Astrobee robots on the International Space Station to test new technologies and automate tasks in ...

NEWARK -- When Wally Horton and Earl Bodem first came to Licking County in 1962 to scout out a government facility for possible use as a military base, what they found was in stark contrast to what is ...

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 ...