PROPELLANT ENERGY MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE FLIGHT DATA SYSTEM CONCEPT.
Abstract
A digital computer program called the Captain Program was prepared for the use of solving a variety of flight control and instrumentation problems connected with space flight. The program was written in Fortran language to be compatible with the IBM 7090 computer. The building-block programming concept was applied to two specific sample problems: Earth orbital rendezvous and Earth-moon flight. Verification was obtained that the Captain Program is capable of generating several important types of space vehicle performance data with only minor changes in the input data including: trajectory time history data; propellant utilization data; control techniques evaluation data; and, control and instrument error analyses. The Captain Program was conceived as the nucleus of a versatile computer program to which new subroutines can be added as new requirements arise. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0603006
Entities
People
- D. E. Peterson
- M. A. Hoffman
- R. D. Seinfeld
Organizations
- Astronautics Corporation of America