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To Ryan: Negative
This is a tutorial and the title of this forum is Tutorials and Help.
This tutorial was posted as is until I enlisted some help for a part of the tutorial's process. It's really not under alot of development accept that area and it is a tutorial and is NOT an add-on.
Its located here so that if a newcommer comes to these forums and is searching for a tutorial for IMFD to fly A11 (AMSO), they will find it here.
Thanks for you suggestion though.
To Tex:
I am not the only person who is helping with this. Thank you for the complement but I cant take full credit for this tutorial. Its a joint endevor. All readers should be sure to recognize the help of pete.dakota. Also Jarmo (yes the writer of IMFD) has helped us get some facts straight in a seperate thread located HERE.
He is also listed in the special thanks section of this tutorial.
To pete, I am working on the TLI accuracy and how to change its current process in AMSO because as you know when the AMSO A11 Saturn -IVB ends its EOI (Earth Orbit Insertion), it comes to a 187.5k X 188.3k orbit -usually with an Inc of 9.00* and a LAN of 353.10*
With the fuel I have left (usually above 70.2%) and wth the knowledge that I still need to make a TLI (Trans Lunar Injection) burn that is a significant useage of fuel, I have been working on a orbit adjustment down to the historical 100.4 by 98.9 n mi which translates to 185.940 km x 183.162 km an inclination of 32.521°, a period (T) of 88.18 minutes (5290.8s), and a velocity of 25,567.8 ft/sec = 7.79306544km/s.
The apogee and perigee were based upon a spherical Earth with a radius of 3,443.934 n mi (5.556 km).
Does anyone know why the Apollo by the numbers document shows such a huge difference in inclination from AMSO's nominal orbit from the AP?
If I can get my orbit to resemble this actual historical orbit, I will begin the ADVANCED section of "Part 1 -From the Earth to The Moon a Historical AMSO Flight Using IMFD"
This information was gotten from Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference (SP-4029) for Apollo 11 flight and converted BY ME from n mi and ft/s to km and km/s in order to get my TLI to be on time without using too much fuel that will keep me from completing my TLI.
Normally if I dont adjust my orbit I set my IMFD for a TLI to occur as close to the historical TLI as possible but I choose the PeA for the moon to be 110km instead of the 150km as it shows to do in the scenarios in the AMSO scenario folder called:
"Apollo 11 step 5"
A few minutes before TLI (Trans-Lunar Injection).
IMFD instrument is all set for the TLI burn. You just have to activate auto-burn IMFD function.
Real flight plan: 16th July at 16:16 UT.
I usually only need 1 MCC to get to this final PeA for the moon.
The reason for the 110km X 110km orbit for the moon is because this is the nominal orbit for the AP when selecting "parking orbit circularization" for AMSO.
If I reach the moon at this altitude its one step I dont have to do when Im there at the moon and all I have to do is undock and base align when the LM ascent is ready to rendezvous like you do. This also saves me a little on fuel because as you know the earlier the burn to a PeA the cheaper it is in fuel.
Does this help pete?
And last but not least To ALL:
Thanks in advance to anyone else who can offer any further help to this tutorial and how it should read or how the processes should be done etc.
To Ryan: Negative
This is a tutorial and the title of this forum is Tutorials and Help.
This tutorial was posted as is until I enlisted some help for a part of the tutorial's process. It's really not under alot of development accept that area and it is a tutorial and is NOT an add-on.
Its located here so that if a newcommer comes to these forums and is searching for a tutorial for IMFD to fly A11 (AMSO), they will find it here.
Thanks for you suggestion though.
To Tex:
I am not the only person who is helping with this. Thank you for the complement but I cant take full credit for this tutorial. Its a joint endevor. All readers should be sure to recognize the help of pete.dakota. Also Jarmo (yes the writer of IMFD) has helped us get some facts straight in a seperate thread located HERE.
He is also listed in the special thanks section of this tutorial.
To pete, I am working on the TLI accuracy and how to change its current process in AMSO because as you know when the AMSO A11 Saturn -IVB ends its EOI (Earth Orbit Insertion), it comes to a 187.5k X 188.3k orbit -usually with an Inc of 9.00* and a LAN of 353.10*
With the fuel I have left (usually above 70.2%) and wth the knowledge that I still need to make a TLI (Trans Lunar Injection) burn that is a significant useage of fuel, I have been working on a orbit adjustment down to the historical 100.4 by 98.9 n mi which translates to 185.940 km x 183.162 km an inclination of 32.521°, a period (T) of 88.18 minutes (5290.8s), and a velocity of 25,567.8 ft/sec = 7.79306544km/s.
The apogee and perigee were based upon a spherical Earth with a radius of 3,443.934 n mi (5.556 km).
Does anyone know why the Apollo by the numbers document shows such a huge difference in inclination from AMSO's nominal orbit from the AP?
If I can get my orbit to resemble this actual historical orbit, I will begin the ADVANCED section of "Part 1 -From the Earth to The Moon a Historical AMSO Flight Using IMFD"
This information was gotten from Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference (SP-4029) for Apollo 11 flight and converted BY ME from n mi and ft/s to km and km/s in order to get my TLI to be on time without using too much fuel that will keep me from completing my TLI.
Normally if I dont adjust my orbit I set my IMFD for a TLI to occur as close to the historical TLI as possible but I choose the PeA for the moon to be 110km instead of the 150km as it shows to do in the scenarios in the AMSO scenario folder called:
"Apollo 11 step 5"
A few minutes before TLI (Trans-Lunar Injection).
IMFD instrument is all set for the TLI burn. You just have to activate auto-burn IMFD function.
Real flight plan: 16th July at 16:16 UT.
I usually only need 1 MCC to get to this final PeA for the moon.
The reason for the 110km X 110km orbit for the moon is because this is the nominal orbit for the AP when selecting "parking orbit circularization" for AMSO.
If I reach the moon at this altitude its one step I dont have to do when Im there at the moon and all I have to do is undock and base align when the LM ascent is ready to rendezvous like you do. This also saves me a little on fuel because as you know the earlier the burn to a PeA the cheaper it is in fuel.
Does this help pete?
And last but not least To ALL:
Thanks in advance to anyone else who can offer any further help to this tutorial and how it should read or how the processes should be done etc.
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