History of 3-yr Gemini mission planning period with emphasis on operational constraints on final rendezvous mission design; early planning involved tangential orbit technique; changeover to concentric orbit rendezvous plan overcame shortcomings of tangential plan but introduced new problems; location of rendezvous midcourse maneuvers was influenced by ground-station locations and by timing of events to take advantage of ground-based guidance capabilities; decision to employ simultaneous-countdown, same-day launch, altered early launch-window philosophies that depended on long, continuous window and on ability to call holds for trajectory considerations. (02637)
Development of Gemini operational rendezvous plan
J Spacecraft Rockets
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets ; 5 , n 9
1968
6 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Development of the Gemini operational rendezvous plan.
NTRS | 1968
|Development of the Gemini operational rendezvous plan.
NTRS | 1968
|Development of the Gemini operational rendezvous plan
AIAA | 1968
|Development of the Gemini operational rendezvous plan.
AIAA | 1968
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