Guidance and control [electronic resource] / edited by Robert E. Roberson, James S. Farrior.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Roberson, Robert E.

Farrior, James S.

Conference Name:

American Rocket Society Symposium (1961 : Stanford, Calif.)

Series:

Progress in astronautics and rocketry ; v. 8.

Progress in astronautics and rocketry ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space vehicles--Guidance systems--Congresses.

Space vehicles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (686 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, 1962.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright""; ""Guidance and Control Committee""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""A. Ascent""; ""Launch-on-Time Analysis for Space Missions""; ""Application of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle in Determining the Optimum Control of a Variable- Mass Vehicle""; ""Optimalizing Techniques for Injection Guidance""; ""B. Space Operations""; ""Station Keeping of Satellites in Rendezvous Compatible Orbits""; ""Injection Guidance Accuracy as Applied to Lunar and Interplanetary Missions""; ""Techniques for Error Analysis of Trajectories""

""Calculus of Perturbations Applied to Lunar Mission Analysis""""Precision Tracking of Space Vehicles""; ""C. Descent""; ""Terminal Guidance System for Soft Lunar Landing""; ""Longitudinal Range Control for a Lifting Vehicle Entering a Planetary Atmosphere""; ""Automatic Re-Entry Guidance at Escape Velocity""; ""D. Inertial Navigation""; ""Application of Sideband Folding Techniques to the Navigation Satellite System""; ""Damping an Inertial Navigation System""; ""Multiple Inertial System Operation in Long Term Navigation""; ""Fundamental Limitations on Inertial Measurements""

""E. Inertial Components""""The King Inertial Navigation Gyro""; ""Design Features of the G8 Two Degree of Freedom Floated Gyroscope""; ""Miniature Integrating Gyro Design""; ""Principles of the Electric Vacuum Gyroscope""; ""F. Optical Navigation""; ""Infrared Navigation Sensors for Space Vehicles""; ""Optical Doppler for Space Navigation""; ""Noise Consideration in Designing a Traveling Wave Tube Mixer for Optical Heterodyning""; ""G. Adaptive Systems""; ""Model Reference Adaptive Systems to Improve Reliability""; ""Path-Adaptive Mode for Guiding Space Flight Vehicles""

""H. Attitude Control""""Effects of Solar Radiation Pressure on Satellite Attitude Control""; ""Momentum Vector Considerations in Wheel-Jet Satellite Control System Design""; ""Limit Cycles in Reaction Jet Attitude Control Systems Subject to External Torques""; ""Attitude Control System Using Logically Controlled Pulses""; ""Generalized Two-Impulse Scheme for Reorienting a Spin Stabilized Vehicle""; ""Contributors to Volume 8""

Notes:

"A selection of technical papers based mainly on a Symposium of the American Rocket Society held at Stanford University, Stanford, California August 7-9, 1961."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60086-482-1

1-60086-263-2

OCLC:

922978777