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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

The B-52 bomber's star tracker system used an electromechanical analog computer called the Angle Computer to perform trigonometric calculations for celestial navigation. This complex device physically modeled the celestial sphere to compute star positions, providing navigation data before GPS technology existed.

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