V-2 Missile Guidance System

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V-2 Missile Guidance System
V-2 Missile Guidance System

New Mexico Museum of Space History

This is an original V-2 guidance system. This particular unit was never flown, but instead used for research at the Germans’ testing facility located at Peenemunde on the Baltic coast.

It consisted of a three-axis gyro and two accelerometers. Readings from these devices were compared during the flight, and from these readings corrections to the missile's flight path could be made with the control surfaces located at the tail end of the missile.

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Taken on: November 15, 2018
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