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 ...

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. – U.S. Navy shipboard navigation and guidance specialists are continuing their efforts to squeeze all the life they can out of the AN/WSN-7 ring laser gyro navigation system for ...

No modern car (nor any smartphone) is considered complete without some sort of navigation product. Indeed, even my wife’s bottom-of-the-line, not-so-smartphone has a cell-tower-based navigation system ...

An international team of researchers have developed a new type of gyroscope that is the first to measure the “wobble” in the rotational axis of the Earth from a ground-based laboratory. Astronomers ...

WASHINGTON –WASHINGTON – U.S. Navy shipboard navigation and guidance specialists are continuing their efforts to squeeze all the life they can out of the AN/WSN-7 ring laser gyro navigation system for ...

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.

Accurately sensing rotation is important to a variety of technologies, from today's smartphones to navigational instruments that help keep submarines, planes, and satellites on course. In a paper ...

It look like something Doc Brown would be working on in his garage, but it is absolutely one of the most essential and sensitive technologies found on many military and some civilian aircraft today: ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a spinning laser gyroscope is placed near a super-cooled rotating ring, the gyroscope accelerates a bit in the same direction as the ring, and scientists aren’t sure why. The ...

The modern smartphone is only possible because of sensors. Their svelte form factor conceals accelerometers, magnetometers, temperature sensors, a GPS unit, and gyroscopes. They all consume volume and ...

Researchers in Italy are hoping to measure Earth's rotation using a laser-based gyroscope installed deep underground, with enough experimental precision to reveal measurable effects of Einstein's ...

In the 1850s British railway companies started introducing a single standard time to make their timetables consistent. Before that, every city would set its own clock based on the observation of the ...