Digital guidance computer is central control element in Apollo control, guidance, and navigation system; efficient operation of guidance computer during any mission phase requires performance of different functions occurring at approximately same time; examples are processing of input data in form of velocity increments, gimbal angles, system status signals, astronaut keyboard commands, and ground commands, and producing output such as steering commands, control of mode and caution lamps, digital display updating, and digital telemetry transmission; to illustrate requirements with which computer must cope, control of spacecraft to accomplish powered maneuver is described.
Computer-controlled steering of Apollo spacecraft
J Spacecraft Rockets
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets ; 5 , n 4
1968
8 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Computer-controlled steering of the Apollo spacecraft.
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|Computer-controlled steering of the Apollo spacecraft.
AIAA | 1968
|Computer-controlled steering of the Apollo spacecraft.
NTRS | 1967
|Computer-controlled steering of the Apollo spacecraft
AIAA | 1967
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