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	Guided missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The V2 had demonstrated that a ballistic missile could deliver a warhead to a target city with no possibility of interception, and the introduction of nuclear weapons meant it could do useful damage when it arrived.
		The accuracy of these systems was fairly poor, but post-war development by most military forces improved the basic inertial platform concept to the point where it could be used as the guidance system on ICBMs flying thousands of miles.
		Today the ballistic missile represents the only strategic deterrent in most military forces; the USAFs continued support of manned bombers is considered by most to be entirely political in nature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guided_missile (917 words)

	LGM-30 Minuteman Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The missile has a gimballed inertial guidance system.
		For ground operations the inertial platform was aligned and gyro correction rates updated.
		Inertial performance data began to be collected for guidance system fault isolation
	www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/LGM-30_Minuteman (2172 words)

	On The Shoulders of Titans - Ch13-6
		At the low point of their first circuit of Earth, Armstrong aligned the inertial platform for a height adjustment maneuver.
		Scott and Armstrong knew they would be very busy all three days of their mission, so each grabbed a package of food and started preparing a meal, which seemed to take longer than they thought it would.
		When they had to stop and align the platform for a maneuver to raise the perigee, they placed the food packages against the spacecraft ceiling.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4203/ch13-6.htm (4711 words)

	Apollo Guidance Computer and Other Computer History
		The navigation and control information is obtained inertially by a gyro-servo-stabilized, three-gimbal platform system with three mutually orthogonal pendulous-integrating gyro accelerometers; the single-degree-of-freedom gyros as well as the accelerometers use externally-pressurized gas bearings.
		The development of rocket engines and inertial measurement instruments was basic to turning the dream of poets into the reality of a trip to the moon, but on a narrower scale the development of practical guidance and navigation algorithms was enabled by the development of programmable digital computers and of higher order programming languages.
		Basically, during boost guidance, the computer evaluates in-flight changes in booster speed and position derived from an inertial platform and develops signals to control the rocket engines so as to keep the booster on course.
	www.klabs.org /richcontent/Misc_Content/AGC_And_History/AGC_History.htm (10792 words)

	Saturn V
		These were an automatic system employing an inertial platform plus radio aids and a manually controlled system which could be used if the automatic system failed or as a primary system.
		The service module would provide the prime propulsion for establishing the entire spacecraft in lunar orbit and for escape from the lunar orbit to earth trajectory.
		In Block II missions the CSM's guidance system would guide the three stages of the Saturn V vehicle; it would control the S- IVB (third stage) and the CSM while in earth orbit; and it would perform the injection into a lunar trajectory.
	www.astronautix.com /lvs/saturnv.htm (13929 words)

	essay23
		Nobody has succeeded in explaining why no bending occurs.
		The explanation must lie in Albert Einstein’s curvature of space-time, and that the speed of light has the same value with respect to any observer on an inertial platform [3].
		Nevertheless, in the present paper, it is assumed that the earth does carry its own aether.
	www.siddeutsch.org /essay23.html (4149 words)

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