Line-of-Sight Payloads: On Target no matter what Whether you are discussing a spacecraft or aircraft the platform will have rigid and flex body motion. The rigid body motion is the motion you learn to describe in undergraduate kinematics and is typically straight forward to understand. The flex body motion will add additional uncertainty to your [...]

The most common application for Inertial Stabilization is the artificial reference star. Using inertial sensors (gyros, accelerometers, etc.) a feed-forward loop is designed to hold a reference laser as still in inertial space as possible. Other sensors can use this reference for feedback but it also has many applications the Directed Energy and Laser Communications [...]