navigation and guidance

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• Guidance, Navigation and Control — (abbreviated GNC or GN C) is a branch of engineering science dealing with the design of systems to automatically control or remote control devices which are moving in space.Examples for GNC systems are: *Autopilots *Driverless cars, like Mars… …   Wikipedia

• Primary Guidance, Navigation and Control System — Das Primary Guidance, Navigation and Control System (PGNCS (ausgesprochen: pings)) war das unabhängige inertiale Navigationssystem der Apollo Raumfahrzeuge. Es ermöglichte den Apollo Raumfahrzeugen die Durchführung ihrer Operationen bei… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• navigation — navigational, adj. /nav i gay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of navigating. 2. the art or science of plotting, ascertaining, or directing the course of a ship, aircraft, or guided missile. [1520 30; < L navigation (s. of navigatio) a voyage.… …   Universalium

• Navigation — This article is about determination of position and direction on or above the surface of the earth. For other uses, see Navigation (disambiguation). Table of geography, hydrography, and navigation, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. Navigation is the… …   Wikipedia

• Defence Research and Development Organisation — Sanskrit: बलस्य मूलं विज्ञानम् Strength s Origin is in Science [1] Agency overvi …   Wikipedia

• Astronomische Navigation — ist der Überbegriff für alle Verfahren der Positionsbestimmung, die auf der Messung von Gestirnen (Sonne, Mond, Planeten oder ausgewählte Fixsterne) beruhen. Auch einige astronomisch gestützte Methoden der Richtungsmessung und Kontrolle zählen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Space accidents and incidents — Space accidents, either during operations or training for spaceflights, have killed 22 astronauts (five percent of all people who have been in space, two percent of individual spaceflights), and a much larger number of ground crew. This article… …   Wikipedia

• Guidance system — A guidance system is a device or group of devices used to navigate a ship, aircraft, missile, rocket, satellite, or other craft. Typically, this refers to a system that navigates without direct or continuous human control. Systems that are… …   Wikipedia

• Navigation research — Whereas originally the term Navigation applies to the process of directing a ship to a destination, Navigation research deals with fundamental aspects of navigation in general. It can be defined as The process of determining and maintaining a… …   Wikipedia

• Navigation system — A navigation system is a (usually electronic) system that aids is navigation. Navigation systems may be entirely on board a vehicle or vessel, or they may be located elsewhere and communicate via radio or other signals with a vehicle or vessel,… …   Wikipedia

• navigation — The process of directing an aircraft from one geographical location to another with the intentions of reaching the intended destination either directly or by planned routing. Navigation usually implies the presence of a human, a navigator, aboard …   Aviation dictionary