ANALYSIS OF AN OPTICAL POSITION DETERMINING DEVICE (SYSTEM 6.1).

Abstract

The particular system under consideration takes sightings on Earth and Moon, measures the angles between these sightings and its attitude reference, and then, with a priori knowledge of the Earth-Moon distance calculates its position in a coordinate system.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 22, 1958
Accession Number
AD0687215

Entities

Organizations

  • General Dynamics

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coordinate Systems

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.