Draper's Inertial Measurement capability enables guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) systems and instruments that do not rely on any external references for navigation. For high accuracy in harsh environments, Draper's inertial design and development work includes the strapdown and gimballed systems used in land, sea, air and space systems. Draper designs instruments and sensors in a variety of technologies—mechanical, optical and micro-optical, MEMS, atom-based—to meet customers' performance, cost and size goals across a wide range of environments for applications ranging from strategic military platforms to squad-level systems to commercial systems.
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Draper Team Completes Critical Design Review Phase of Strategic Enhanced Ground Test Facility
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Draper to Design Microbe-based Sensors to Perform Environmental Monitoring
Draper is looking to test the boundaries of microbe-based sensing technologies.
Flight Tests Show Draper’s SCANS Will Support Air Force’s PNT Systems Guidance, Navigation, and Control
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Filling in the Details: Teaching AI to Complete our Picture of the Moon
Draper researchers have figured out how to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems to create synthetic high-resolution images from low-resolution pictures—an advancement that will be instrumental in enhancing space flight and moon landings.