NASA NTRS · 19850065719
A digital Orrery
Abstract
The Orrery, a special computer for high-speed high-precision orbital mechanics computations has been designed and built. On the problems the Orrery was designed to solve, it achieves approximately 10 Mflops in about 1 cu ft of space while consuming 150 W of power. The specialized parallel architecture of the Orrery, which is well matched to orbital mechanics problems, is the key to obtaining such high performance. In this paper the design, construction, and programming of the Orrery is discussed.
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Applegate, J. H., Douglas, M. R., Hunter, P., Seitz, C. L., Gursel, Y.. 1985-09-01. A digital Orrery. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19850065719
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