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  2. Apollo PGNCS - Wikipedia

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    Apollo Command Module primary guidance system components Apollo Lunar Module primary guidance system components Apollo Inertial Measurement Unit. The Apollo primary guidance, navigation, and control system (PGNCS, pronounced pings) was a self-contained inertial guidance system that allowed Apollo spacecraft to carry out their missions when communications with Earth were interrupted, either as ...

  3. Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia

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    Documentation of AGC software operation. Delco Electronics, Apollo 15 - Manual for CSM and LEM AGC software used on the Apollo 15 mission, including detailed user interface procedures, explanation of many underlying algorithms and limited hardware information. Note that this document has over 500 pages and is over 150 megabytes in size.

  4. Chamberlain Group - Wikipedia

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    Raynor — the company's line of garage door openers for professional installers. This line of professional installers is slightly less common than LiftMaster. Craftsman — re-branded Chamberlain models sold at Sears. Those products have a "139" model prefix to denote that the Chamberlain Group made them for Sears.

  5. Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist.She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program.

  6. Electric gate - Wikipedia

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    Most gate kits can be fitted with safety equipment so that these limits are achieved and so cover that part of EN13241-1. In September 2010, following two incidents in Bridgend and Manchester , when children were killed by sliding gates, the UK Health and Safety Executive issued 2 safety notices aimed at gate manufacturers and installers ...

  7. Apollo/Domain - Wikipedia

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    The original operating system is Apollo's own product called Aegis, which was later renamed to Domain/OS.The Aegis and Domain/OS system offers advanced features for the time, for example an object oriented filesystem, network transparency, diskless booting, a graphical user interface, and, in Domain/OS, interoperability with BSD, System V, and POSIX.

  8. Ascent propulsion system - Wikipedia

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    The ascent propulsion system (APS) or lunar module ascent engine (LMAE) is a fixed-thrust hypergolic rocket engine developed by Bell Aerosystems for use in the Apollo Lunar Module ascent stage. It used Aerozine 50 fuel, and N 2 O 4 oxidizer.

  9. Core rope memory - Wikipedia

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    Core rope memory is a form of read-only memory (ROM) for computers.It was used in the UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) and the UNIVAC II, developed by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in the 1950s, as it was a popular technology for program and data storage in that era.