Accession Number:

AD0255000

Title:

LUNAR TRAJECTORY STUDIES AND AN APPLICATION TO LUNIK III TRAJECTORY PREDICTION

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO PHILADELPHIA PA MISSILE AND SPACE DIV

Personal Author(s):

• PETTY,A.
• JURKEVICH,I.

Report Date:

1960-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

1.0

Abstract:

A summary is given of technical accomplishments pertaining to three relatively closely connected areas 1 design of a fast, accurate, and efficient computer program for computation of lunar trajectories 2 an application of the resulting computer program to an error analysis of specific lunar trajectories and to the determination of some actual trajectories as an example the trajectory of LUNIK III is considered in detail and 3 tracking program determination of initial conditions to be used in the equations of motion. Author

Descriptors:

• *LUNAR PROBES
• *ORBITS
• *COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• *RADAR TRACKING
• DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• DIGITAL COMPUTERS
• ERRORS
• MOON

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE