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    The Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) was a computer that provided the autopilot for the Saturn V rocket from launch, through Canary Islands orbit...
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  • NCR computers such as the NCR 315 (also called slabs in this context) and Burroughs large systems 13-bit: Saturn Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC)...
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    pronounced as pings. Each lunar mission had two additional computers: The Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) on the Saturn V booster instrumentation ring...
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  • A platform-specific data size used for some historical digital hardware Many early computers were decimal, and a few were ternary The UNIVAC 1005 addresses...
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    Apollo (spacecraft) (category Spacecraft launched by Saturn rockets)
    launch vehicle and a launch escape system (LES) to carry the crew in the command module safely away from the launch vehicle in the event of a launch emergency...
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    astronauts for manual reentry. The computer was architecturally similar to the Saturn Launch Vehicle Digital Computer, in particular in the instruction...
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    Saturn V (category Vehicles introduced in 1967)
    The Saturn V is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon. The rocket...
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    Saturn V instrument unit (category Guidance computers)
    After clearing the launch tower, a flight program stored in the launch vehicle digital computer (LVDC) commanded a roll of the vehicle to orient it so that...
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  • LVDC may refer to: Launch Vehicle Digital Computer Launch Vehicle Data Center, hosted at the Spacecraft Assembly and Checkout Building Las Vegas Design...
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    Saturn IB (category Vehicles introduced in 1966)
    The Saturn IB (also known as the uprated Saturn I) was an American launch vehicle commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)...
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    Spacecraft On-Board Computer (OBC), was very similar to the Saturn Launch Vehicle Digital Computer. The Gemini Guidance Computer weighed 58.98 pounds...
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    small-scale computer was later applied in the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer used in the Instrument Unit that guided all Saturn IB and Saturn V vehicles. Components...
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    plaques were made for Apollo 13, because of the replacement two days before launch of Command Module Pilot Thomas K. "Ken" Mattingly with John L. "Jack" Swigert...
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    the vehicle's operation. An electronic equivalent may be called an electronic instrument cluster, digital instrument panel, digital dash, digital speedometer...
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    Spacecraft On-Board Computer (OBC), was very similar to the Saturn Launch Vehicle Digital Computer. The Gemini Guidance Computer weighed 58.98 pounds...
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    (Russian: боевая машина – combat vehicle), and the nickname grad means "hail". The complete system with the BM-21 launch vehicle and the M-21OF rocket is designated...
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    first art installation on the Moon during the broadcast of the Apollo 16 launch. In May 1972, Scott learned that Van Hoeydonck planned to make and sell...
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    2020). "New T-0 of 4:10 p.m. EDT due to upper-level winds; vehicle and payload look good for launch" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 22 August 2022...
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    hardware Launch vehicles Little Joe II Saturn I Saturn IB Saturn V Launch vehicle components F-1 engine J-2 engine Instrument unit Launch Vehicle Digital Computer...
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    system of the Saturn V. Data from the ST-124 were used by the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (another Instrument Unit component) to compare actual flight...
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    hardware Launch vehicles Little Joe II Saturn I Saturn IB Saturn V Launch vehicle components F-1 engine J-2 engine Instrument unit Launch Vehicle Digital Computer...
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    from the LM to show the EVA's progress; or, mounted on a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), where it could be remotely controlled from Mission Control on Earth...
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    Solid Logic Technology (category IBM computer hardware)
    thick-film resistors underneath. ULDs were used in the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer and Launch Vehicle Data Adapter of the Saturn V rocket. Advanced Solid...
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    Head of Vehicle Engineering at Corus Automotive. Rawlinson was one of the first people in the UK to use computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering...
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    for application in vehicles and to control vehicles on the move Global navigation satellite system technology integrated with computers and mobile communications...
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  • In 2014, Polyphony Digital made a long-term partnership with Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) for a plan to launch an official FIA Online...
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    The Launch Vehicle Mark-3 or LVM3 (previously referred as the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III or GSLV Mk III) is a three-stage medium-lift...
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    was not launched if its flight would run from December to January, as its flight software would have required the orbiter vehicle's computers to be reset...
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    infantry fighting vehicle and the ZTD-05 assault vehicle, as well as several support variants based on the ZBD-05. The Type 05s could be launched at sea from...
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  • market Sinclair's computers in the USA under the name Timex Sinclair. In April the ZX Spectrum was launched. In July Timex launched the TS 1000 (a version...
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