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If we were asked to specify as briefly as possible what spaceflight is, we could just use three simple words: guidance, navigation and control. But if we want to be a little more prolix, we could say that it involves answering two questions, “Where am I now?” and “How can I get from here to there?” It is remarkably difficult to answer these deceptively simple questions.
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Since some of these pieces of hardware were exclusively for the re-entry and landing phases, they will be discussed in Chapter 13.
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An implied zero had to be added as the last digit of each number.
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This software page will be described in detail in Chapter 12.
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Sivolella, D. (2014). Fundamentals of the Shuttle GNC. In: To Orbit and Back Again. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0983-0_10
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