Midcourse/Related Articles

Parent topics

Navigation [r]: Techniques for determining one's own position, a feasible course to be taken to a desired new position, and journeying on that course ^[e]
Precision guided munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
Remotely operated vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
Space launch vehicle [r]: A means of transportation through the atmosphere and into outer space; it may return, go into satellite orbit, or into an escape trajectory. Ballistic missiles are excluded ^[e]

Inertial navigation system [r]: Add brief definition or description
Terrain contour mapping [r]: missile guidance technique for cruise missiles such as the BGM-109 Tomahawk, which matches the profile seen by a radar altimeter/narrowbeam ground-pointing radar with a predefined digital map of the terrain ^[e]

Accelerometer [r]: Most commonly, a sensor used to measure acceleration in one reference axis; also an aircraft instrument that reports the instantaneous acceleration in the flight path ^[e]
Boost phase [r]: Add brief definition or description
Global Navigation Satellite System [r]: A system which allows small electronic devices to determine their location (Longitude, Latitude, and Altitude) as well as time with an accuracy of up to a few centimetres using time signals transmitted along a line of sight by radio from satellites. ^[e]
Gyroscope [r]: Add brief definition or description
Launch (general vehicle) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Thruster [r]: Add brief definition or description
Terminal guidance [r]: Provision of information given to a weapon in the final part of its trajectory, or to an aircraft about to land ^[e]
Unmanned aerial vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
Unmanned ground vehicle [r]: A powered ground vehicle with no human crew, controlled either by full-time manual telepresence or possibly with some computer-controlled autonomous operation ^[e]
Unmanned underwater vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description