Automatic, easily instrumented, guidance technique is suitable for accomplishing soft, pin point, vertical lunar landing with nearly minimum fuel expenditure; use of modified proportional navigation results in total incremental velocity penalty of about 100 fps compared to total velocity increment required by minimum fuel landing trajectory; sensitivity of technique to random and bias sensor errors and to dynamic lags in sensor outputs and vehicle engine response is presented; critical sensor errors are range and range rate.


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    Title :

    Minimum fuel vertical touchdown lunar landing guidance technique


    Additional title:

    Progress Astronautics Aeronautics


    Contributors:
    Hall, B.A. (author) / Dietrich, R.G. (author) / Tiernan, K.E. (author)


    Publication date :

    1964


    Size :

    30 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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