Midcourse/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Navigation [r]: Techniques for determining one's own position, a feasible course to be taken to a desired new position, and journeying on that course ^[e]
• Precision guided munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Remotely operated vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Space launch vehicle [r]: A means of transportation through the atmosphere and into outer space; it may return, go into satellite orbit, or into an escape trajectory. Ballistic missiles are excluded ^[e]

Subtopics

• Inertial navigation system [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Terrain contour mapping [r]: missile guidance technique for cruise missiles such as the BGM-109 Tomahawk, which matches the profile seen by a radar altimeter/narrowbeam ground-pointing radar with a predefined digital map of the terrain ^[e]

Other related topics

• Accelerometer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Boost phase [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Global Navigation Satellite System [r]: A system which allows small electronic devices to determine their location (Longitude, Latitude, and Altitude) as well as time with an accuracy of up to a few centimetres using time signals transmitted along a line of sight by radio from satellites. ^[e]
• Gyroscope [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Launch (general vehicle) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Thruster [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Terminal guidance [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unmanned aerial vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unmanned ground vehicle [r]: A powered ground vehicle with no human crew, controlled either by full-time manual telepresence or possibly with some computer-controlled autonomous operation ^[e]
• Unmanned underwater vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description