UK investigators believe an uneven surface repair at Edinburgh airport caused jolting shock to the nose-gear of a departing British Airways Airbus A319, which subsequently suffered inertial reference ...

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Jan. 11, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) today announced that its Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit (Scalable SIRU™) has been selected as ...

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Aug. 30, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has announced the delivery of the 8,000 th LTN-101 FLAGSHIP™ Inertial Reference Unit (IRU), which ...

Photo caption: The new Astrix 1090 fiber-optic gyro is specifically designed and certified for long-duration missions. Photo: Airbus DS. New Astrix 1090 Fibre-Optic Gyro (FOG) from Airbus Defense and ...

Inertial navigation systems use information provided by accelerometers and gyroscopes to provide the position and orientation of an object relative to a predetermined origin point, orientation and ...

LONDON—Swedish air accident investigators believe that a malfunction in an Inertial Reference Unit (IRU) may have sent a Bombardier regional jet into a fatal dive from which the crew was unable to ...

THE LTN-101E GLOBAL NAVIGATION AIR DATA inertial reference system Northrop Grumman is developing for the Airbus A380 will replace traditional laser gyros and silicon accelerometers with fiber-optic ...

Inertial Labs has released its new attitude and heading reference system, the AHRS-II-P. This device is an enhanced, high-performance strapdown system that determines absolute orientation (heading, ...

Einstein’s relativity theory and quantum theory are two pillars of modern physics that have each been shown to work well in their respective regimes. All currently observed physical effects fall well ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) today announced that its Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit (Scalable SIRU(TM)) has been selected as the inertial reference unit of choice for Boeing Space ...