A simplified model of midcourse maneuver execution errors
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Neuropsychic tensions in pilots during aircraft landings
Advanced post-Saturn earth launch vehicle design and chemonuclear propulsion system performance
Design criteria for automatic remotely indicating fluid contamination sensors, monitors, counters, and recorders and for sampling equipment and techniques
Feasibility of adapting optical astronomy package to Apollo Application Program missions on lunar surface
Evaluation and recommended experiments for Apollo Optical Technology Extension System
Propellant and explosive safety activities - management planning, static electricity and lightning hazards, and sensitivity measurement
Multiprocessor program control for manned Mars spacecraft
Space optics experimental studies for development of optical technology Apollo extension system
Checkout and data management system requirements for space station and space base mission program
Feasibility study of two-meter system for large experimental telescope program
Saturn 1B facilities, launch delay, and ground support equipment study for AAP launch control
Lunar base synthesis, mission analysis, shelter design, and cost and resource estimates - summary
Reusable nuclear stage concepts for space shuttle system
Analysis of technological and cost factors affecting feasibility of television broadcast satellites during 1970 to 1975 period - Vol. 1
Pumped liquid, dual gas generation cycle for space shuttle booster and orbiter auxiliary propulsion systems
The VHF transponders of the ATS-1 and ATS-3 geostationary satellites were used in ranging and position fixing experiments. An interrogation signal was transmitted from a ground terminal to ATS-3, which relayed it to the vehicle transponders. The vehicle that was addressed repeated the signal and its response was relayed back through both satellites to the ground terminal, where propagation times were measured; lines-of-position and fixes were computed. The 0.43 second tone-code ranging signal contained a single audio tone frequency. Ambiguity was resolved and user craft identified by a simple digital code. Seven vehicles were used in the test: three aircraft, two ships, an oceanographic buoy, and a truck. Ionospheric and multipath effects were studied. It is concluded that a VHF system could have an accuracy of + or - one nautical mile for ships and aircraft if calibration transponders are used to monitor the ionosphere.
The major issues affecting the selection of a space shuttle system were considered. These included the HO orbiter/ballistic recoverable booster series-burn configuration; the HO orbiter/ballistic recoverable booster parallel-burn (rocket-assisted orbiter-RAO) configuration; and the HO orbiter/flyback LOX/RP booster configuration. The booster studies emphasized the series-burn ballistic design, but the differences required for RAO application were identified and evaluated. Definition of the RAO configuration parameters and technical problem areas, establishing approaches to possible solutions, and developing program costs are discussed.