On October 5th, we had the second of our weekly all day program development plan meetings at MIT. Most of our attention was given to the open items on the AS-278 program which I will discuss later, but first I would like to pass on some general comments regarding the work at MIT. Based on…
Category: Lunar orbit insertion
Some MPAD work needed for the G mission
During the February 26th Data Select Mission Techninques meeting, Math Physics Branch (MPB) picked up three action items for the G mission, of which you should be aware….
F/G Rendezvous Mission Techniques – mostly F
As part of F/G Torture Week, we spent Thursday, January 30 on the rendezvous. Overall, I would say this mission phase is in pretty good shape with only a few unresolved items that we know about right now. I would like to tabulate here a bunch of odds and ends we agreed to at this…
C Prime Maneuver Monitoring Mission Techniques into cement
On November 2 we went over the C’ Maneuver Monitoring Mission Techniques for the last time – that is, we all hope and expect it’s “final.” Although, the detailed procedures will be documented elsewhere, I would like to describe the new things we established at this meeting. They deal primarily with overburn protection by manual…
Two-stage LOI looks good after C’
Just like in other fields of endeavor, it always seems possible to use actual flight results to prove how smart you were before the flight. I am writing this note to crow about how C’ proved we “done right” in planning a two-stage LOI….
Some things about MSFN orbit determination
A couple of interesting things came out of our Data Selection Mission Techniques meeting of February 19….
Status report on Apollo 13 Mission Techniques – or “Go for CSM DOI”
Based on the September 23 Mission Techniques meeting, it appears that the command module DOI type mission should be adopted for Apollo 13. At this meeting we reviewed all facets of this approach and could find none that would keep us from going this way; on the other hand, the advantages appeared to be substantial….