Computer Science – Programming Languages
Scientific paper
Apr 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgcd....5...97b&link_type=abstract
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 5, Mar.-Apr. 1982, p. 97-110.
Computer Science
Programming Languages
Airborne/Spaceborne Computers, Atlas Icbm, Missile Control, Space Navigation, Spacecraft Guidance, Compilers, Computer Techniques, Digital Computers, Evolution (Development), Programming Languages, Spacecraft Launching, Sputnik Satellites
Scientific paper
The history of space guidance and navigation begins in the early 1950s when the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory was chosen to provide a self-contained guidance system backup for the new Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. Computing developments during the 1950s are considered, taking into account the construction of the all-electronic digital computer at MIT in the early 1950s, the first algebraic compiler, and the design of an algebraic programming language. Attention is given to the Delta guidance method, the Q-system which was first implemented on the Thor IRBM, and the symmetry of the Q matrix. The effect of the launch of Sputnik on computational developments related to space guidance applications is discussed. A NASA study contract made it possible to continue work which had begun under Air Force auspices. Work related to Mars probe navigation is considered along with developments related to the race to the moon.
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