A laser gyroscope provides guidance without using a spinning rotor. Two laser beams travel in opposite directions around a path in the gyro. When the gyro tilts due to a change in direction, a detector records the resulting change in the beams' relationship.
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World Book illustration by J. Harlan Hunt</P>
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