Since our meeting in your office on the stable orbit rendezvous, Ed Lineberry and I have met on a number of occasions with other interested people in an attempt to lay out a schedule of work needed to arrive at the decision as to how to go on 278 and subsequent missions. This note is…
Category: Earth orbit
Seventh “D” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting
At the seventh “D” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting on March 25, we spent most of our time discussing activity in the football rendezvous, specifically, under what circumstances and how to abort. It turned out that the same ground rules and techniques probably apply equally well to the pseudo-TPI maneuver halfway through the rendezvous exercise….
Data Priority meetings schedule
In order to get a little bit more orderly in our conduct of the Trajectory Control Data Priority business, it’s evident that we must schedule meetings on a pre-established, periodic basis. Accordingly, the Ascent and Descent meetings will take place on alternate Tuesday afternoons; Rendezvous meetings will be held of Wednesdays, one mission in the…
Spacecraft computer program orbital integration
This is just another little golden nugget for your files….
D Rendezvous Mission Techniques
The final review of the D Rendezvous Mission Techniques will be held on Wednesday, January 15, starting at 9:00 a.m., in Room 383, Building 4….
Sextant Rendezvous Navigation Review
As noted in the attached memorandum, I would like to request your active participation in a meeting on April 25 to review for “C” mission operational personnel the work your people have done on CSM sextant rendezvous navigation. I think, in order in insure proper use of the CSM G&N during the spacecraft 101 flight,…
DPS Modeling
It might be worthwhile for you or your people to look into the DPS modelling in the RTCC. The “D” mission includes several maneuvers with manual throttling. Improper modeling of these burns may have some effect on the operation, although, offhand I would not think so….
Software for the AAP CSM spacecraft computer
The time appeared right to try to find out exactly what the program requirements are for the CSM computer for AAP and we had meetings on January 28 and 30 to do that. As a result of these meetings, a number of PCR’s will be prepared and submitted to the Apollo Spacecraft Software Configuration Control…
D Rendezvous Ground Rules and Working Agreements update
Attached are the ground rules and working agreements updated based on our September 9 Mission Techniques meeting. They reflect the new, simplified D Rendezvous exercise – primarily changes in the football trajectory and the “insertion maneuver” plus a bunch of things we were able to delete. As noted in my last report of this subject,…
AAP Rendezvous Mission Techniques
In order to help solidify requirements for the AAP CSM computer program we are having a Mission Techniques type meeting on Tuesday, January 27 at 9 a.m., in Room 378 of Building 4. The specific subject to be discussed is the rendezvous phase of the AAP mission. The thing we are particularly anxious to pin…