inertial guidance

inertial guidance
a guidance system for an aerospace vehicle, in which self-contained devices determine the vehicle's course on the basis of the directions and magnitudes of the accelerations it undergoes in flight. Also called inertial navigation. Cf. celestial guidance, command guidance.
[1950-55]

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