celestial-inertial guidance
celestial-inertial guidance
[sə′les·chəl i′nər·shəl ′gīd·əns] (navigation)
The process of directing the movements of an aircraft or spacecraft by an inertial guidance system which receives correction inputs from observations of celestial bodies. Also known as automatic celestial navigation.
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