Space Business/Technology Update: Northrop Grumman dedicates facility to resonator gyro developer

NORTHROP GRUMMAN dedicated its space gyroscope manufacturing facility to David G. Lynch, the "father of the hemispherical resonator gyro," or HRG, the company said. The HRG uses changes in vibration patterns on a thin-walled glass shell to detect when it is moved, and has been used on communications...

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