What is "inertial guidance"

Usage examples of "inertial guidance".

Claypoole began, his distrust of the inertial guidance system of just a moment earlier completely forgotten.

And their satellite-based geosync positioning systems were taken away from them--they had to rely on the inertial guidance system built into their maps.

There was not much for so daunting an adventure: a change of clothes and underwear, socks, a flashlight laser, two water bottles, a knife -- I had specified the type -- in a belt scabbard, a heavy canvas jacket with thermal lining, an ultralight blanket to use as a bedroll, an inertial guidance compass, an old sweater, night-vision glasses, and a pair of leather gloves.

There was not much for so daunting an adventure: a change of clothes and underwear, socks, a flashlight laser, two water bottles, a knife-I had specified the type-in a belt scabbard, a heavy canvas jacket with thermal lining, an ultralight blanket to use as a bedroll, an inertial guidance compass, an old sweater, night-vision glasses, and a pair of leather gloves.

He would look at the inertial guidance readout on the rockhopper's console, and think, That's wrong.

An inertial guidance system kept Hyakowa's HUD up to date, and Bravo unit's route and first objective were clearly marked on the HUD.

The answer to that one had been the hyper log, the interstellar equivalent of the ancient inertial guidance systems developed on Old Earth long before the Diaspora.

The HL is analogous to the inertial guidance units first developed on Old Earth in the 20th century ce.

The GPS said they were more than half a kilometer off where their inertial guidance systems showed.

Every twelve seconds, it updated its inertial guidance system with a fix from the Global Positioning System navigational satellites, but after only a forty-five-minute low-level flight, its navigational error was less than sixteen feet.