Definition of "guidance system" [guidance system]

• A system of equipment for automatically guiding the path of a vehicle (especially a missile) (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "His bittersweet mission was to guide and watch over the Command Service Module whose power and guidance system provided the only means of getting home, and it still does."
• "At 240,000 feet and Mach 24.9 the guidance system commandedAtlantis into a 75-degree right bank."
• "The test compared data from the two systems during the flight to Kwaja-lein to select one as the guidance system for the Small ICBM (SICBM)."