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    (160 km) and the speed would be 25,695 feet per second (7,832 m/s). Retrofire was planned to take place at 4 hours, 32 minutes, and 26 seconds after launch...
    16 KB (2,045 words) - 17:31, 25 August 2024
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    to ASCS. First he took manual control of pitch, reorienting the spacecraft from its "orbit attitude" of 14 degrees nose-down pitch to the retrofire attitude...
    32 KB (3,892 words) - 16:47, 4 November 2024
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    undecided on the course of action to take. Some controllers thought the retrorocket pack should be jettisoned after retrofire, while other controllers thought...
    43 KB (5,051 words) - 03:52, 9 November 2024
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    7. The Luna 7 spacecraft was intended to achieve a soft landing on the Moon. However, due to premature retrofire and cutoff of the retrorockets, the spacecraft...
    5 KB (298 words) - 12:38, 28 May 2024
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    orbit, flight director Chris Kraft told him to begin his retrofire countdown and to shift from manual control to the automatic attitude control. Partly because...
    29 KB (2,973 words) - 01:09, 25 August 2024
  • Launch status check (category Articles to be expanded from November 2020)
    pre-launch and ascent) RETRO – Retrofire Officer (responsible for abort procedures and Trans-Earth Injection, or TEI, retrofire burns) FIDO – Flight Dynamics...
    8 KB (709 words) - 02:17, 30 September 2024
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    computation for reentry to be calculated by computers on the ground, with their results (retrofire times and firing attitude) then transmitted to the spacecraft...
    113 KB (11,978 words) - 08:41, 28 October 2024
  • three orbit mission." The post-mission report also shows that retrofire was scheduled to occur on the third orbit. Scott Carpenter's subsequent flight...
    61 KB (6,546 words) - 06:09, 17 November 2024
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    by ground control and 5 attempts at retrofire over two days, the craft was finally coming down for a landing. Due to the inaccuracy of the reentry burn...
    5 KB (372 words) - 18:30, 23 October 2024
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    Retrorocket (redirect from Retrofire)
    out to be successful, Hajile was too unpredictable to be used in conventional warfare, and by the time the war drew to a close, with no chance to put...
    9 KB (1,128 words) - 14:16, 13 October 2024
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    not have allowed descent until 20 days. Ten seconds after retrofire, commands were sent to separate the Vostok service module from the reentry module...
    53 KB (6,150 words) - 19:09, 5 November 2024
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    with intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests, fatality or injury to test animals, uncrewed space flights, rocket-powered aircraft projects of...
    97 KB (3,180 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2024
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    astronauts the capacity to navigate, allowing them to choose a safe landing spot in an emergency and calculate the timing of retrofire (on extended missions...
    6 KB (488 words) - 20:10, 25 August 2024
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    tanks. According to mission rules, this ought to be quite enough hydrogen peroxide, reckoned Kraft, to thrust the capsule into the retrofire attitude, hold...
    50 KB (5,962 words) - 15:06, 9 November 2024
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    spacecraft was arcing downward. His pulse reached 171 beats per minute. Retrofire gave him the distinct and peculiar feeling that he had reversed his backward...
    36 KB (4,607 words) - 15:09, 26 October 2024
  • substandard performance, and NASA management elects to end the mission early. While oriented for retrofire, the main engine on the Apollo spacecraft, dubbed...
    18 KB (2,287 words) - 23:45, 20 October 2024
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    Cooper prepare a revised checklist for retrofire. Due to the system malfunctions, many of the steps would have to be done manually. Only Hawaii and Zanzibar...
    22 KB (2,946 words) - 05:10, 28 October 2024
  • version of the game for the Commodore 64 in April 1984. Tom Hudson wrote Retrofire, a more elaborate version of the lander concept for Atari 8-bit computers...
    27 KB (2,989 words) - 08:12, 17 November 2024
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    would adjust the spacecraft's attitude and retrofire to slow the X-38 down, allowing gravitational attraction to pull it back into Earth's atmosphere. A...
    17 KB (2,022 words) - 14:36, 17 September 2024
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    split into separate modules. After undocking, the spacecraft performs a retrofire and burns up in the atmosphere. There were many small variations between...
    17 KB (2,122 words) - 08:48, 9 November 2024
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