Latest Inertial navigation system Stories
SHANGHAI, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- For the fourth time, Honeywell (NYSE: HON), a leader in aerospace navigation products, has been selected for China's new C919 commercial airliner. Honeywell's inertial reference and air data systems are the most recent selections by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC) for the new C919 single-aisle commercial airliner. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080425/LAF040LOGO) (Logo:...
PHOENIX, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that it has been selected by United Launch Alliance to provide primary avionics components for guidance and navigation of the Atlas V rocket in a follow-on contract worth up to $90 million over the life of the long-term contract. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080425/LAF040LOGO) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080425/LAF040LOGO) Honeywell will provide the Fault Tolerant Inertial...
PHOENIX, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that its Air Data Inertial Reference System (ADIRS), which provides navigational data, has been selected as the standard inertial reference system for the Airbus A320, A330/A340 and A380 family of aircraft. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080425/LAF040LOGO) The ADIRS provides critical flight control and navigation information to multiple aircraft systems by autonomously tracking aircraft motion....
MIDDLETOWN, R.I., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) announced today that it has received a new $6.4 million order for its fiber optic gyro (FOG)-based TG-6000 inertial measurement unit (IMU) for use in the U.S. Navy's MK54 torpedoes. Shipments for this order are expected to begin during the first half of 2010 and continue into 2011. The KVH TG-6000 IMU precisely measures both rate and acceleration in three axes, critical for the navigation of a torpedo...
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- ACUTRONIC USA today announced the formation of a new business unit, ACUTRONIC iTS, focused on providing turnkey inertial testing products and services. The growth of inertial devices in the micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) market is creating an increasing need for testing of these devices. Responding to this need, the new business unit will provide inertial testing services and turnkey automated test equipment (ATE) for testing of inertial...
FREIBURG, Germany, March 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has announced that it has been awarded a contract by Korean military systems and vehicle manufacturer Doosan DST Co., Ltd. to deliver inertial navigation units for the Republic of Korea's new K21 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV). The LLN-G1 units will be built by the company's German navigation systems subsidiary, Northrop Grumman LITEF. The LLN-G1 is a hybrid land navigation system based on...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- ACUTRONIC USA was honored with the 2008 'Manufacturer of the Year Award' presented by the Pittsburgh Business Times. These annual awards are presented to manufacturing organizations in four categories based on company size. Winners must demonstrate excellence in 11 areas, including superiority of products over competitor's products, long-term growth plans, growing a qualified work force, revenue growth/market penetration, management process and...
For the past three years a satellite has circled the Earth, collecting data to determine whether two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity are correct. Today, at the American Physical Society (APS) meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., Professor Francis Everitt, a Stanford University physicist and principal investigator of the Gravity Probe B (GP-B) Relativity Mission, a collaboration of Stanford, NASA and Lockheed Martin, will provide the first public peek at data that will...
