Timeline for Why would such a powerful computer (or a computer at all) be needed to go to the Moon?
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| Sep 16, 2020 at 19:28 | history | notice removed | called2voyage♦ | ||
| Sep 16, 2020 at 19:08 | history | edited | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 16, 2020 at 14:01 | history | notice added | called2voyage♦ | Needs citation | |
| Sep 16, 2020 at 4:13 | comment | added | moonwalker | When I interview new engineers and get "looks like a dynamic programming problem" as an answer to a simple maximum subarray problem, or hash tables where an array would do, I really wish "we can do today" really applied :-( | |
| Sep 14, 2020 at 16:56 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | Or the Soviets jammed the radio (It was certainly considered in those days!) | |
| Sep 14, 2020 at 16:53 | comment | added | jamesqf | Re the ground team doing most of the computation, sure, but what happens if the radio fails? | |
| Sep 14, 2020 at 15:48 | comment | added | Zibbobz | This answer would be improved by some citation. Even just a reference for the stated facts. | |
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| Sep 14, 2020 at 13:31 | comment | added | J... | The flilght computer was absolutely necessary - the apollo lander was a total fly-by-wire system, and that needs a computer to operate, even when under complete manual control. Controlling it from the ground was not possible because of the transmission delay (ie: real-time control with a 2.5s time-lag is not acceptable). You could even say that the real-time FBW control systems had more complex, and more numerous, calculations to complete than simply the navigation burden. | |
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| Sep 13, 2020 at 11:25 | history | answered | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |