In all manned lunar landings to date, the lunar module Commander has taken partial manual control of the spacecraft during the final stage of the descent, below roughly 500 ft altitude. This report describes programs developed at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, MIT, for use in the LM's guidance computer during the final descent. At this time computational demands on the on-board computer are at a maximum, and particularly close interaction with the crew is necessary. The emphasis is on the design of the computer software rather than on justification of the particular guidance algorithms employed. After the computer and the mission have been introduced, the current configuration of the final landing programs and an advanced version developed experimentally by the author are described.


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    Titel :

    Apollo LM guidance computer software for the final lunar descent.


    Beteiligte:
    Eyles, D. (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1973-03-01


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :



    Apollo lunar descent guidance

    Klumpp, A. R. | NTRS | 1974


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    Kayton, M. | NTRS | 1967