Apollo spacecraft systems analysis program. Preliminary LR reflectivity model
Preliminary lunar reflectivity graphs
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Preliminary lunar reflectivity graphs
Evaluation and processing of scatterometer data for use in NASA Earth Resources Program
Performance prediction for LM landing radar over rough terrain
Airborne Range and Orbit Determination as satellite geodetic survey instrument
Elimination of spurs in Apollo spacecraft telemetry signal transmission
Computer program for studying point-to-point nonintegrated heliocentric conic section trajectories
Computer routine is similar to Holzer's method in torsional vibration treatment, and Prohl's and Myklestad's approach in computing rotor deflection. Matrix iteration technique is used to compute rotordynamic response by a simulated discrete mass system.
Computer program calculates 28 day diet for life support consumables requirements and waste removal. Equations representing food breakdown into carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, modified to account for digestive materials and indigestible crude fibers, formulate total energy consumption. Program applications are listed.
Luminescence measurements on Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 lunar soil samples
Magnetization versus field and temperature analyses of ferromagnetic material in Apollo 12 lunar samples
Model and computer program to predict film usage time of Skylab missions
Heat transfer and fluid flow during forced convection boiling of wetted mercury with application to design and optimization of once-through boilers for Space Power Rankine Cycle Systems - SNAP-8
Computer program has been specifically developed to handle, in an efficient and cost effective manner, planar wound pressure vessels fabricated of either boron-epoxy or graphite-epoxy advanced composite materials.
SDS-930 computer determines impact cost-decision value at any chronological point in definition phase of multiprogram project. Options, option combinations, and different displays are listed. Graphical procedure was chosen as best method for project.
A digital computer program was developed which analyzes any radial rib antenna with ribs radiating from a central hub. The program has the capability for calculating the antenna surface contour (reversed pillowing effect), the optimum rib shape for minimizing the rms surface error, and the actual rms surface error. Rib deflection due to mesh tension and catenary cable tension can also be compensated for, and the pattern from which the mesh gores are cut can be determined.
Program eliminates or reduces time-consuming aspects of computation of power spectrum for high-frequency communication system. This program was written in FORTRAN IV for UNIVAC 1230 or 1108 computer.
The input parameters are presented for a computer program which performs calculations for inviscid isentropic transonic flow over three dimensional airfoils with straight leading edges. The free stream Mach number is restricted only by the isentropic assumption. Weak shock waves are automatically located where they occur in the flow. The finite difference form of the full equation for the velocity potential is solved by the method of relaxation, after the flow exterior to the airfoil is mapped to the upper half plane.
A computer program is described which can be used to study the feasibility of conducting relativity experiments on a wide range of hypothetical space missions, and a few applications are presented for solar probes which approach the Sun within 0.25 to 0.35 AU. It is assumed that radio ranging data are available from these spacecraft, and that accuracies on the order of 15 meters can be achieved. This is compatible with current accuracies of ranging to Mariner spacecraft. At this level of accuracy, the range data are sensitive to a number of effects, and for this reason it has been necessary to include a total of up to 23 parameters in the feasibility studies, even though there are only two parameters of real interest in the relativity experiments.