UK investigators believe an uneven surface repair at Edinburgh airport caused jolting shock to the nose-gear of a departing British Airways Airbus A319, which subsequently suffered inertial reference ...

LONDON—Swedish air accident investigators believe that a malfunction in an Inertial Reference Unit (IRU) may have sent a Bombardier regional jet into a fatal dive from which the crew was unable to ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) today announced that its Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit (Scalable SIRU(TM)) has been selected as the inertial reference unit of choice for Boeing Space ...

Einstein’s relativity theory and quantum theory are two pillars of modern physics that have each been shown to work well in their respective regimes. All currently observed physical effects fall well ...

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Jan. 11, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) today announced that its Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit (Scalable SIRU™) has been selected as ...

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Aug. 30, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has announced the delivery of the 8,000 th LTN-101 FLAGSHIP™ Inertial Reference Unit (IRU), which ...

Inertial navigation systems use information provided by accelerometers and gyroscopes to provide the position and orientation of an object relative to a predetermined origin point, orientation and ...