Manual Astronaut Navigation

Abstract

The report presents selected methods, procedures, and equipment that form a basis for the development of a flexible manual space navigation system. These include a graphical method of eccentricity determination, geometric element determination by numerical differentiation of range measurements, differential correction of orbital elements, manual position fixing, orientation elements determination, improved optical ranging, and the possible uses of back- up inertial platforms, hand-held mechanical calculators, and hand-held, battery operated, computers. Numerical examples and error analyses are also presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0860095

Entities

People

  • Richard C. Walsh
  • Roger C. Horrigan

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Apogees
  • Calculators
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Computing Devices
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Earth Orbits
  • Error Analysis
  • Graphs
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Orbital Elements
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Space Navigation
  • Stabilized Platforms

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Geodesy
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris