Conceptually, the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which designed the system, built it atop the work they’d done for the Polaris guided-missile system, made to launch nuclear weapons from ...

The missile that blasted out of the clear blue Gulf Stream carried the U.S. nuclear navy into new positions of power. By passing its 13th successive successful test, its first from under water ...

A Polaris A3 Launch. ... (I’ve seen the inertial guidance system for a contemporary Trident missile on a tour of the old North ... a small digital computer is required,” according to a 1970s ...

The first test missile emerged from the water at an odd angle, but its internal guidance systems quickly corrected that. Both first and second stages of the Polaris A-1 used solid-fuel propellant ...

Six miles east of Cape Canaveral one night last week, the 16,100-ton converted merchant ship Observation Island steamed an easterly course in gently rolling seas.The seagoing missile laboratory, ...

The U.S. Navy yesterday awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems-Missiles & Space Operations, Sunnyvale, CA, a $541 million contract for the follow-on production of 12 Trident II D5 fleet ballistic ...