NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : A pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : A

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A guidance, navigation, and control system, the Simulated Shuttle Flight Test System (SS-FTS), when interfaced with existing aircraft systems, provides a research facility for studying concepts for landing the space shuttle orbiter and conventional jet aircraft. The SS-FTS, which includes a general-purpose computer, performs all computations for precisely following a prescribed approach trajectory while properly managing the vehicle energy to allow safe arrival at the runway and landing within prescribed dispersions. The system contains hardware and software provisions for navigation with several combinations of possible navigation aids that have been suggested for the shuttle. The SS-FTS can be reconfigured to study different guidance and navigation concepts by changing only the computer software, and adapted to receive different radio navigation information through minimum hardware changes. All control laws, logic, and mode interlocks reside solely in the computer software

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 12/1/1974
• Year: 1974
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), AIRBORNE/SPACEBORNE COMPUTERS, AIRCRAFT GUIDANCE, DIGITAL NAVIGATION, FLIGHT CONTROL, FLIGHT TESTS, INTERFACES, JET AIRCRAFT, NAVIGATION AIDS, SPACE SIMULATORS, Hegarty, D. M

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