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Wow, outstanding writeup. My mind is blown. I sorta understood this before, but after looking at your interactive demonstrations, I see more how it worked. I had no idea that GPS used a pseudorandom code too. I wonder if Apollo ever compared their ranging measurement to the AGC dead reckoning position in real time? I also wonder what techniques we'll be using when we return to the moon, if we do shortly like they are saying. I suppose something similar, but can we get the actual 3D position by having stations elsewhere? What about putting one on the moon itself, maybe at one of the poles? Now that we can pack a lot of this into a tiny computer.
Apr 26, 2022, 7:43:37 AM
Posted to The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft