Dumb question #1: How does the missile "see" the stars?

Douglas Wood
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From: "O'Reilly John E NORC" <OReillyJE@CORONA.NAVY.MIL>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [OT]: How to knock a missile out of the sky...?


> >    Missiles that are only going to be fired on cloudless nights can
> >    take star sightings.
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> They take the star sighting after they leave the atmosphere to correct for
> errors in their inertial nav.
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> John
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