This memorandum is to report the meager accomplishments of the Second and Third “E” Rendezvous Mission Techniques meetings of March 18 and April 1, 1968….
Category: Mission types
C’ earth parking orbit duration is a variable
This note is just to make sure everyone is aware of the rather siginificant variation in the time between earth orbit insertion (EOI) and translunar injection (TLI) on the C’ mission, depending on day and azimuth of launch. This came as a surprise to me and may have some impact on what you are doing….
There will be no VHF ranging data collected while tracking the LM on the lunar surface
It has been suggested that, in addition to optics and rendezvous radar tracking one spacecraft of the other while the LM is on the lunar surface, we should also utilize VHF ranging. This data would certainly be useful for post-flight analysis if not in real time. I have attempted to resolve the situation with regard…
Results of “C” Mission Rendezvous Review meeting – April 22, 1968
At your request, I set up a meeting on our current “C” mission rendezvous problems with participation by all organizations interested in this activity. The attached attendee list will show you they were well represented. Our basic purpose was to determine current status of the situation and to recommend where to go from here with…
F Rendezvous Mission Techniques Clean-up
On April 5 we had what I expect is the last of the F Mission Rendezvous Techniques meetings. We resolved a number of open items which had not been covered before, or which popped up during simulations. This memo is to list them for the record. Some are trivial, some are really quite significant….
Fifth “C” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting
We had another “C” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting on February 23. We resolved a few things and reworked the flow charts some more at this meeting….