On November 4 we had our first-and-last D Maneuver Monitoring Mission Techniques meeting. In addition to all interested MSC organizations, it was attended by MIT, NR, TRW, and GAEC. We spent the day going through all of the SPS maneuvers both docked and undocked, except for those associated with the rendezvous and the docked DPS…
Category: Reentry
C’ Mission Techniques – mostly Entry
On Friday, November 15, we had the last C’ Mission Techniques meeting I expect we will ever have. It was mostly devoted to entry although, of course, some other odds and ends were discussed….
AS-258 RTCC Retrofire Time Computation
One step taken in an attempt to alleviate the RTCC program development problem has been to make major reductions in the area of retrofire time computations. Since these deletions have an impact on the Retrofire Controller’s capability and mode of operation, I felt it desirable to report these things in a memorandum devoted solely to…