Navigation & Inertial Sensing

Strategic Grade

With over sixty years of experience and proven performance in space navigation systems, combined with our advanced land navigation systems, EMCORE’s strategic grade capabilities support space launch vehicles and satellites, missile guidance and launcher pointing systems for some of the most mission-critical Aerospace & Defense programs in the world.

EMCORE’s Compact Inertial Reference Unit for Space (CIRUS, CIRUS-EX) and CIRUS-A Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) are designed and qualified as the next-generation products that build on our legacy as the premier supplier of precision pointing and navigation systems. CIRUS delivers state-of-the-art, strategic-grade performance for inertial navigation, guidance, pointing and stabilization.

EMCORE’s battlefield positioning, pointing and survey systems products such as the PNU / UPNU Position & Navigation Unit / Universal Position & Navigation Unit are deployed on key programs including the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).