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Title Guidance and control / edited by Robert E. Roberson, James S. Farrior
Published New York : Academic Press, 1962

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 670 pages) : illustrations
Series Progress in astronautics and rocketry ; v. 8
Progress in astronautics and rocketry ; v. 8.
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
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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Space vehicles -- Guidance systems -- Congresses
Space vehicles -- Guidance systems
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Roberson, Robert E., editor
Farrior, James S., editor
American Rocket Society Symposium (1961 : Stanford, Calif.) issuing body
LC no. 62013119
ISBN 9781600862632
1600862632
9780123955869
0123955866