Component and system design concepts and development tests for Vernier Propulsion System (VPS) of soft-lunar-landing Surveyor spacecraft; feed components of helium-pressurized, liquid-propulsion system supply propellants under controlled conditions to three throttlable rocket engines for midcourse correction, attitude control during main retro-engine firing, retro-engine separation, and vehicle deceleration to within few feet of moon's surface; system testing, investigations of problem areas and solution found.
Development of surveyor vernier propulsion system
J Spacecraft Rockets
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets ; 4 , n 3
1967
8 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Development of the Surveyor Vernier propulsion system
AIAA | 1966
|Development of the Surveyor Vernier propulsion system.
NTRS | 1967
|Development of the Surveyor Vernier propulsion system.
AIAA | 1967
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