Notes 1967, 1967-01 - 1967-12

File — Box: 3, Folder: 26

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Documents and notes pertaining to Horn's career in missile and rocket development. Some artifacts are written in German.

Dates

Other: 1967-01 - 1967-12

Creator

From the Collection: Horn, Helmut (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.

Extent

From the Collection: 3.5 Linear feet (4 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Storage Information

Box: 3, Folder: 26 (Mixed Materials)

Repository Details

Repository Details

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Collection organization

Helmut Horn Collection

Optimum Guided Ascent, 1964-06-25

A Comparison of an MIT Explicit Guidance Principle with MSFC Iterative Guidance, 1964-09-30

A General, Explicit, Optimizing Guidance Law for Rocket-Propelled Spaceflight, 1964

Memorandum: A Comparison Between Iterative Guidance and a Similar MIT Guidance Principle, 1964-06-19

Rapid Computation of Optimal Trajectories, 1967-07

Memorandum: Hohmann/cross-product steering guidance, 1968-01-13

Optimization Problems Caused by Interaction of Guidance and Propellant System, 1966-06-06-1966-06-08

Translation and Original. Previously cataloged as Captured Document No. ZWB/WVA/PA/530/40. Description of document, but no English title. "Ein Betrag Zur Aeuseren Ballistik der R-Gaechosse aui den drehenden Erdaphsaeroid", 1948-09-30

Translation and Original. Report on an integrating device for guided missiles., 1947-07-30

Analysis and Simplification of a Servo-System for Simulation Purposes. Flight Simulation Branch Memo No. 60, 1955-06-20

No Title. Contains Definitions, Equations of Motion of Missile, Moments: Body and Wind, Forces: Body and Wind Axis, Earth Transformations, Angular Relations, Direction Cosines

No English Title. Typed Notes and charts in German, with some terms translated to English. Translated terms are Missile Nr, Launch Pad, Receiver, Amplifier, Telemetry, Nominal Valve, Measured Valve, Nominal Time, Measured Time, Turbine Exhaust Pressure, Chamber Pressure, Propellant Pump Discharge Pressure, Pump Speed, Burnout Time, Recorder Start, End Recorder Time, Recorder End, End Fieldstrength Measure Time, Fieldstrength End, Doppler Recorder, Impact Range, Doppler Fieldstrength, Aeriel Coordinate., 1942-10-03

Envelope of Diagrams

Pencil notes, Labeled Working Papers 1945-1953, 1945-1953

Astronautics and Aeronautics. Von Braun on Space Development. Blue Sky and Non-Blue Sky, 1972-04

Pencil notes, 1969-01-15-1970-12-21

Pencil notes, Division Listing Charts for the Aero-Dynamics Laboratory, and Aero-Astrodynamics Laboratory Telephone Listing, 1973-07-15-1973-11-21

Pencil notes, 1963-01-13-1964-12-02

III European Space Flight Symposium Program, 1963-05

Alabama Section 12th Annual Honors Dinner Meeting Program, 1963-11-08

Boundary Value Problems Associated with Optimization Theory. NASA Technical Memorandum X-53365, 1965-12-03

Optimal Ascent Into Orbit- A New Look at an Old Problem, 1964

Cover of Astronautics The Saturn Program, 1962-02

Handwrittten Letter to Mr. Horn Regarding The Perkins guidance report. Attached to "Flight Mechanics of Ascending Satellite Vehicles" by Frank M. Perkins, 1956-05

Memorandum: Saturn V, Versatile in-flight targeting logic. Flow chart attached., 1966-12-16

Pencil notes. Typed list of references., 1957-1963

A New Approach to an Old Problem. First sentence is "The Influence of the gravitational field can be predicted for a vehicle in flight with a limited amount of preknowledge." Appendix A is equations. Appendix B is titled Derivation of the Average Direction of the Gravitational Vector for Elliptical Orbits

Agenda. 1) IGM Three Stage Logic Definition for S-II Terminal Stage Configuration (Dry Workshop). 2) Reformulation of Predicted Range Angle in Order to Remove Empirical Constant. 3) Thrust Filter.

Note to Mr. Horn. Continuous Guidance S-II/S-IVB, 1968-10-08

Technical Comments. Comment on "Development of the Iterative Guidance Mode with Its Application to Various Vehicles and Missions", 1967-12

Weekly Notes to Dr. Geissler, 1968-10-30

Pencil Notes, 1965-09-27-1967-04-03

R-AERO-DAG Working Papers IGM Improvement Studies

IGM 2-Stage Characteristic Velocity, Vc

Formulation for Trajectory Optimization in Two Dimensional Vacuum Flight Over a Spherical Earth. Contract NAS8-11458, 1965-04

Work Assignment: Preliminary Guidance and Control Implementation Studies for the Saturn V Flight Equations

Weekly Notes to Mr. Horn. Subject: Two engines out in the S-II stage of Saturn V: Guidance. D Chandler wrote notes on the back., 1968-03-07

Charts with Notes and Routing Slip attached.

SSR-180, Evaluation of Iterative Guidance Mode Logic Changes to Reduce Malfunction Sensitivity. Fulfills the requirements of Contract NAS8-5608, Schedule II, Part V, Task 1.0, SSR-180., 1968-04-09

Memorandum: Redefinition of the predicted burn time in the S-II stage for the guidance equations., 1968-07-12

Weekly Notes (Continued) to Dr. Geissler.

Weekly Notes to Mr. Horn., 1968-06-21

Memorandum: Logic changes to the guidance equations for dual engines out in the S-II stage, 1968-05-03

Page Titled D5-15704-4. Contains 4.2: S-II Results and Table 4-VI: S-II Performance Results

Memorandum: Application of an Energy Constraint to the Iterative Guidance Mode, 1967-06-29

Memorandum: Redefinition of the predicted burn time in the S-II stage for the guidance equations., 1968-07-12

Technical Directives to Northrop Space Laboratories from R-AERO-DAG, 1966-09

Several Articles from the April 1961 ARS Journal, 1961-04

"Fouriersche Analyse von Funktionen mit Sprungen, Ecken und ahnlichen Besonderheiten," "Der harmonische Analysator Mader-Ott," "A Correction for the Trapezoidal Rule," pencil notes, and German article

Memorandum: Expanded IGM Guidance, 1968-12-17

Memorandum: Methods of extending the effectiveness of the iterative guidance mode, 1969-04-05

Typed pages: Pitch Flow Diagram, Performance Summary from Saturn V Simulation, Coordinate System, Remaining Time Algorithm, Remaining Velocity Algorithm, Error of Remaining Time Algorithm Along Two Upper Stages of Standard Saturn V Trajectory, Required Acceleration Algorithm

A Simplified Explicit Guidance Scheme for Orbital Injection, 1967

Memorandum: Preliminary iterative guidance mode three-stage logic definition for S-II terminal stage configuration (Dry Workshop), 1969-10-21

Application of An Iterative Guidance Mode to a Lunar Landing. NASA Technical Note D-2967., 1965-11

Iterative Guidance Applied to Generalized Missions

Propulsive-Phase Guidance for Unmanned Landing on Mars: A Two-Part Study, 1967

A Study of Low-Thrust Guidance, 1967

General Formulation of the Iterative Guidance Mode. NASA Technical Memorandum X-53414, 1966-03-22

Concepts of the Iterative Guidance Law for Saturn Launch Vehicles. Note at the top: Research Review. OK.

Iterative Guidance Applied to Generalized Missions

Copy of written Page. At the top: Mr. Horn. At the bottom: Hart

Iterative Guidance Applied to Generalized Missions, 1969-01

Summary of The Iterative Guidance Mode

Photo: Prime Crew of Third Manned Skylab Mission. Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue., 1979

Stranded in Lunar Orbit: A Scenario, 1969-03

Free Flight Simulated on Ground with the Apollo Saturn V SpaceVehicle, 1967-09

The Saturn Apollo Guidance Targeting Process

Saturn V Launch Vehicle Targeting for the Apollo Lunar Landing Mission

Simplified Error Analysis fo the Gravity Feedback Loop. Aeroballistics Internal Note No. 5-61, 1961-05-09

Variational Problems and Their Solution by the Adjoint Method. NASA TM X-54359., 1966-05-09

Preliminary Standard Trajectory of Stages I and II of the Saturn C-1 Vehicle, Block III. Aeroballistics Internal Note No. 11-60., 1960-07-27

The Astrionics System of Saturn Launch Vehicles. NASA TM X-53384., 1966-02-01

NASA Activities. Vol. 12, No. 4, 1981-04

NASA Activities. Vol. 12, No. 5, 1981-05

Lehrbuch Der Praktischen Physik. 16th Edition, 1930

The Calculus of Variations and Modern Applications (Optimization, Formulation of Problem, Spacecraft, Launch and Space Flight). (Contract NAS8-11495)., 1966-02-11

Introduction to Manpower Planning and Utilization Review- 1968. Excerpts from Dr. Ernst Geissler’s preface to the AERO Lab briefing., 1968-06-21

Aeroballistics Internal Note No. 21-60: Introduction Into the Concept of the Adaptive Guidance Mode., 1967

“Iterative Guidance Applied to Generalized Missions.” Presented at the AIAA Guidance, Control and Flight Dynamics Conference in Huntsville, Alabama. August 14-16, 1967., 1969

“Iterative Guidance Applied to Generalized Missions.”, 1966

“Optimization Problems Caused by Interaction of Guidance and Propellant System.”, 1963

Third European Spaceflight Symposium. List of Participants., 1964

“Anwendung eines iterativen Lenkverfahren auf eine Mondlandung.”, 1965-11

“Application of an Iterative Guidance Mode to a Lunar Landing.” NASA TN D-2967, 1971-07-20

“Mathematical Concepts and Historical Development of the Mascot Guidance Technique for Space Vehicles.” NASA TM-X64608, 1971-07-20

Space Flight Mechanics Specialist Conference. University of Denver. 1966., 1966

Aeroballistic Internal Note #30, 1953

Aeroballistics Internal Note #71

Twelfth Annual East Coast Conference on Aerospace and Navigational Electronics

Photos Showing various people and events, 1965-1966

Handwritten notes on launch vehicle ellipses.

Planning requirements to facilitate Growth of the S-IVB Workshop into a space station

Various Memorandum with the subject: Review of the spent stage experiment ground rules, 1966-06-06

Pamphlet: Development of an expandable airlock utilizing the Elastic Recovery Principle, 1965-05-25

Analog Computer Notes on Planning History, 1954-1955

Computer System Notes, Handwritten, 1954

Hoelkev Flight Mech., 1956-08-11

Skylab Saturn IB Flight Manual, 1972-09-30

Proceedings of the second national Conference on the peaceful uses of space, 1962-05-08

Internal Note Saturn V Launch vehicle Resume, 1970-04-07

Results of the first United States Manned Orbital Space Flight, 1962-02-20

Branch Working paper 62/3 C-5 Performance summary, 1962-07-15

Booklet: Steps to Saturn

Saturn V Flight Manual SA 510, 1969-08-11

Proceedings of first flight simulation symposium, 1956-11

Technical Program for the 12th East Coast conference

National Conference on Space maintenance & Extra-Vehicular Activities, 1966-03-01-1966-03-03

Handwritten Notes, 1955-10-19

National Conference on Space maintenance & Extra-Vehicular Activities, 1966-03-01-1966-03-03

Notes for M. I. T. Special Summer Program Techniques of Analogue Computation Course No. 2.759, 1954-08-02-1954-08-13

Various Magazine Clippings regarding space, 1961-1968

Memorandum: A comarpison between Iterative Guidance and a similar MIT Guidance Principle, 1964-07-19

Trajectory Optimization for Powered Flight in Two or three dimensions, 1959

Application of optimization techniques. Contract NAS8-11495, 1967-06-15

"On the theory of Optimum Multistage Processes and its Application". AIAA 2nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting. January 25-27, 1965, 1965

"Internal Note: An Analytic Approach to Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization Via Lawden's Spiral" IN-AERO-G-73-1, 1973-05-04

"Optimal Continuous Low-Thrust Trajectories for Co-Altitude Rendezvous", 1969-05

"A Variational Method for optimal staging" AIAA 2nd Aerospace Sciences meeting. Jan 25-27, 1965, 1965

For internal use only. "Saturn Control feedback stability Analysis Using an Edcliff Angle-of-Attack Meter for Alpha control(U)" report No. DA-TN-10-60, 1960-01-26

Office Memorandum. "Natural Frequencies for propellants in Saturn Missile SA-C1 (U)", 1960-01-12

"Saturns V S-11 Stage Nonlinear POGO Analysis". Under Contract NAS8-20082, 1971-12

"Description and performance of the Saturn launch vehicle's Navigation, Guidance and control system", NASA TN D-5869, 1970-07

"Structural load reduction of the space shuttle booster/orbiter configuration using a load relief guidance technique" NASA TM X-64738, 1973-04-05

Advanced control systems for launch vehicles, 1966-08

"Structural Control Interaction" NASA TM X-64732, 1973-01-15

Internal Note. Discussion of manual control problems IN-AERO-68-7, 1968-12-27

For Internal use only. Vibration analysis of Saturn Vehicle SA-1 (Dummy second stage) (U) Report No. DA-TN-109-59, 1959-12-22

Vibration analysis of Saturn Vehicle Block II (U) Report No. DA-TR-108-59, 1959-12-09

Apollo Guidance and control system flight experience, 1970-05

Control-feedback stability analysis Report No. DA-TR-2-60, 1960-01-11

Flutter and stability Analysis(U) Report No. DA-TM-4-60, 1960-01-12

A study of Saturn AS-502 Coupling longitudinal Structural vibration and lateral bending response during boost

Weekly note. March 13, 1969. To Dr. Geissler, 1969-03-13

Generalized Two-Deminsional missile dynamic Equations (In Pitch Plane) as used in simulation studies Dynamic Systems memo No. 36, 1955-01-11

For Internal use only. A comparison of some actuation methods for attitude control of space vehicles. Report No. DG-TN-63-59, 1959-11-10

Technical Information summary AS-501 Apollo Saturn V Flight Vehicle R- ASTR-S-67-65, 1967-09

SA-201, SA-202 and SA-501 Mission profiles. Prepared for panel review board meeting 65-2, May 4, 1965, 1965-05

"NASA Saturn…"

15th Anniversay of NASA. Photos, 1973-10

AeroBallistics Division Organizational Chart, 1960-11-22

Jet Propulsion: Journal of the American Rocket Society, 1956-05

"Anwendung eines iterative Lenkver fahren auf Mondlaundung", 1964-04-1964-07

Review of guidance activities in Aero-Astrondynamics lab

Application of an iterative guidance mode to a lunar landing. NASA TN D-2967, 1965-11

Internal Note. Functions Yielding Earth departure and lunar Arrival conditional. R-AERO-IN-12-64, 1964-05-22

NASA TM X-53268, 1965-05-25

A simplified cutoff hypersurface for iterative guidance during the lunar injection burn Technical Memorandum X-53025, 1964-03-17

Total velocity requirements and payload estimates for several modes of lunar landing. Branch working paper 62/4. With suppliment dated Sep 28, 1963, 1962-08-15-1962-09-28

A method of implementing cutoff conditions for Saturn V Lunar missions out of Earth parking orbit assuming a continous Ground Launch window NASA TM X-53268, 1965-05-25

Anwendung eines iterativen Lenkverfahren auf eine Mondlandung, 1964-04-1964-07

Application of an iterative guidance mode to a lunar landing. NASA TN D-2967, 1965-11

Notes 1967, 1967-01-1967-12

Notes 1960, 1960-01-1960-12

Notes 1968, 1968-01-1968-12

Notes 1961, 1961-01-1961-12

Notes 1962, 1962-01-1962-12

Notes 1964, 1964-01-1964-12

Notes 1962, 1962-01-1962-12

Notes 1965-66, 1965-01-1966-12

Internal Note Aero-Astrodynamics Internal Note # 9-66, 1966-07-18

Velocity Requirements for lunar rendezvous mode Schemes A and B, 1962-05-14

Velocity Requirement estimates for lunar operations, 1962-04-15

Gravity- Gradient Mechanics

Army Ballistic Missile Agency, 1959-04-08

A study of Saturn AS-502 Coupling Longitudinal Structural Vibration and Lateral Bending Response During Boost, 1969-01-20

Gemini 4 Extravehicular Activity: A Walk In Space

Newspaper clippings regarding Skylab, 1973

Control Systems research at MSFC, 1968

Astrodynamics, Guidance and Optimization Research at MSFC, 1968

Preliminary analysis of a cable retrieval technique for the tethered ATM workshop, 1967-03-01

Tether Docking Applications

Pages of Mathmatics regarding "Aeroballistics Weight Equations", 1961-09-11

Aeroballistics technical note DA Technical Note No. 46, 1957-10-07

Gravitational Environment For Space Vehicles

"Old Papers to Keep", 1961-1962

Memorandum for: Dr. Ernest Geissler, 1962-03-19

Optimization Problems caused by Interaction of Guidance and Propellant system, 1966-07-06-1966-07-08

Iterative Guidance applied to generalized missions

Notes: Geissler, 1967-12-11

Memorandum To: Distribution, 1961-08-07

Agenda (Presumably for a meeting), 1961-12

Notes from the change Vought presentation Washington D.C., 1962-05-16

C-5 Configuration/Performance review, 1962-03-02

Performance comparison of four operational modes for lunar flight, 1962-02-12

Book: Saturn Illustrated Chronology, 1968-08-01

Booklet: Saturn Illustrated Chronology, 1957-04-1964-07

Booklet: Space Flight Evolution, 1970-06-30

Journal containing handwritten notes, 1959-06-05-1960-04-08

REAC Info Bulletin 4 "Synthesis of Input and Output Networks for Feedback Amplifiers"

White Sands Proving Ground Simulation Program and Trajectory Integrators