Reentry guidance research and references

[Urwumpe]

I start this one for gathering links to documents about the reentry guidance, for the next version work.

This document describes the entry guidance software, like used in Mission Control for simulating the reentry.

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19800018907_1980018907.pdf

 

[garyw]

Now THAT's documentation!

 

[Smegghed]

Holy documentation.....this is going to take me a while to read through.

 

[Urwumpe]

One more for the guidance...

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760024058_1976024058.pdf

This has schematics of the ascent and reentry guidance algorithms, as planned in 1976, pretty close to the current state.