Back in the old days, finding out your location on Earth was a pretty involved endeavor. You had to look at stars, use fancy gimballed equipment to track your motion, or simply be able to track your ...

NORTHROP GRUMMAN dedicated its space gyroscope manufacturing facility to David G. Lynch, the "father of the hemispherical resonator gyro," or HRG, the company said. The HRG uses changes in vibration ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s hemispherical resonator gyro (HRG), which is used for commercial and military space applications, recently achieved 30 million hours of continuous operation without a ...

Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are at the heart of modern navigation systems, offering critical information about position, orientation and movement through the integration of accelerometers and ...