This guidance system reads gyroscopes and accelerometers and sends appropriate commands to attitude control thrusters. |
If there's an accident, accelerometers can alert the network to the crash, before it turns into a multiple vehicle pile-up. |
Additional accelerometers can measure the vehicle's linear accelerations and angular acceleration about the spin axis. |
The delicate accelerometers and inertial guidance components did all the piloting until the second stage kicked us loose. |
The physical activity tests were validated using electronic accelerometers to measure levels of activity minute by minute. |
For more rigorous demonstration of the forces involved, Dial also used two accelerometers to measure the acceleration in the forward and vertical directions. |