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A surprising number of ICBMs have used star trackers as well! It's somewhat surprising that ICBMs used star trackers before inertial guidance was sufficiently p
by jcrawfordor 5y ago
A surprising number of ICBMs have used star trackers as well! It's somewhat surprising that ICBMs used star trackers before inertial guidance was sufficiently precise. The idea of an automated, high-precision star tracker is not so surprising today but back in the '60s it was quite an achievement.