Michael Shook

NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Year One: Preliminary Asteroid Diameters and Albedos
#asteroid #saved #podcast #pdf
http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02522
#research #pdfpdf

#surveyor #gnc #pid #how #moon #nasa #1960s
"vernier engine throttle settings were controlled using a proportional-plus-derivative
feedback loop closed around the measured vs. desired velocity magnitude as
a function of altitude, represented by the [~parabolic] descent contour"
Surveyor Spacecraft Automatic Landing System
Sam W. Thurman
AAS 04-062
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.504.9417&rep=rep1&type=pdf
#pdf #pdfpdf #gncgnc #pidpid #howhow #november #2015

#orbit #determination #history #satellite
http://www.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/TD/td2703/vetter.pdf
Fifty Years of Orbit Determination: Development of Modern Astrodynamics Methods
Jerome R. Vetter
#nasa #november #2015 #pdf #pdfpdf #saved

Paul Graham's beautiful "The Roots of Lisp" as a convenient pdf rather than vintage PostScript
#lisp #history #beautiful #eval #1960s #good #july #2015 #pdf #pdfpdf #code how #functional #programming #math #cool #wishlist
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0I3tnLjudc3S05ZaHpydE14TlE/view?usp=sharing
http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html

Newton’s proof of Kepler’s second law
http://www.math.ku.edu/~lerner/m500f09/NewtonKepler.pdf
#physics #newton #proof #law #lawlaw #july #2015 #image #pdf #pdfpdf #orbit #space #moon #solarsystem #satellite #cool #saved

"in a 2–MW wind turbine, the weight of the rotor and the tower is typically about 250 tons [...] a kite generator of the same rated power can be obtained using a 500–m2 kite and cables 1000–m long, witha total weight of about 2 tons only."
#wind #turbine #windturbine #kite #comparison #energy #renewable #june #2015 #pdf #pdfpdf #power #electricity #saved #kitegen #physics #kitegen
http://www.dariopiga.com/Papers/Conference/ICREGA2010Kite.pdf

Dunvegan Space Systems http://www.dunveganspace.com/
#satellite #space #cubesat #small #detail #pdf #pdfpdf #saved #april #2015

Remarkable research and model (in Orbiter) of the Gemini rendezvous process
#rendezvous #gemini #how #orbit #howhow #howto #tutorial #orbiter #simulation #process #cool #interesting #1960s #math #apollo #moon #pdf #pdfpdf #history #space #aero #navigation
Gemini semi-optical rendezvous tutorial (v 0.3) http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4127

"Boom and Zoom: The History of the NF-104A AST"
by
John Terry White
http://hydrogen-peroxide.us/uses-biprop-combustion/AIAA-2005_3537_Boom_and_Zoom_History_of_NF-104A%2...
#f104 #x15 #x15x15 #space #flight #pdf #pdfpdf #march #2015 #rcs #rcsrcs #control #detail #technical #history #saved
It's apparent the J Terry White is defending ? vs Chuck Yeager

DSpace@MIT: Line-of-sight guidance techniques for manned orbital rendezvous http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/12652
#space #nasa #moon #mit #mitmit #how #howhow #orbit #apollo #pdf #pdfpdf #saved #gemini #february #2015

What is it like to be a bat?
Thomas Nagel
[From The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, 4 (October 1974):
435-50.] http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf #philosophy #consciousness #december #2014 #viavia #gabfest #stephenmetcalf #andrewbrown #pdfpdf #1974