In accordance with the basic design concepts of the Mercury Capsule, the manual and automatic control systems were developed to provide a redundant and integrated method of controlling the capsule attitude. The systems were designed to meet the requirements of ballistic and orbital flight, for normal and abort missions. Since the orbital mission includes all modes of control, it will serve as a basis for the system description.


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    Title :

    The Mercury Capsule Attitude Control System


    Contributors:
    J W Twombly (author)

    Conference:

    National Meeting on Manned Space Flight ; 1962 ; St. Louis, MO, US



    Publication date :

    1962-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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