Using hybrid computer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, it is possible to predict launch vehicle availability, identify major contributors to possible failure of countdown and work out steps to rectify them; computer is used as simulation model for analysis of checkout, assembly and launch of Saturn V vehicle; more than 500 major events are subdivided into 20,000 subevents for analysis; computer languages combined comprise general-purpose system simulator, Fortran and Cobol; operations and calculations involved.


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    Titel :

    Computer tells launch vehicle readiness


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Technology Week Including Missiles Rockets



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1967


    Format / Umfang :

    2 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


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