celestial guidance

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   a method of controlling the flight of a missile or spacecraft by reference to the positions of celestial bodies

   Broadersteering

Questions about celestial guidance

What does celestial guidance mean?

celestial guidance means "a method of controlling the flight of a missile or spacecraft by reference to the positions of celestial bodies".

Is celestial guidance a common word?

celestial guidance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.