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Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience

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Part II : Computers On Board Unmanned Spacecraft

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• Introduction to Part Two.

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- Chapter Five -

- From Sequencers to Computers: Exploring the Moon and the Inner Planets -

• From sequencers to computers: Exploring the Moon and the inner planets.
• Fixed sequencers: "Computers" on Ranger, Surveyor and the early Mariners.
• Programmable sequencers: Mariners to Mars, Venus and Mercury.
• Expanded memory and expanded functions.
• The Star computer.
• Viking computer systems.
• On to the outer planets.

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- Chapter Six -

- Distributed Computing On Board Voyager and Galileo -

 

• Distributed computing on board Voyager and Galileo.
• Voyager - The flying computer center.
• Galileo - True distributed computing in space.
• Future unmanned spacecraft computers.

 

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