Space technology – “Planetary Spacecraft Navigation” (Springer, 2019) – James Miller interview part 2 of 2

Check out the book here   https://amzn.to/2Z5utRP James Miller has decades of experience working on spacecraft navigation. He has also worked extensively in programming computer systems to conduct navigation operations. We spoke about his experiences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and … Continue reading →

Check out the book here   https://amzn.to/2Z5utRP

James Miller has decades of experience working on spacecraft navigation. He has also worked extensively in programming computer systems to conduct navigation operations. We spoke about his experiences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other firms as well as the recent book he published on planetary spacecraft navigation. This is part 2 of the two-part interview.

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0:38 – Jim talks about why he wrote book.

6:22 – Jim addresses the effects of greater computing power.

14:37 – Jim talks about Fortran compilers.

17:27 – Jim talks about programming a missile flight plan.

19:35 – Jim talks about JPL plans to land Viking on Mars on the fourth of July.

20:40 – Jim talks about artificial intelligence.

22:20 – Jim talks about flight equations and artificial intelligence.

24:01 – Jim talks about the L1 Lagrange point.

31:34 – Jim talks about L1 as a spot for a communications satellite for a moon mission. He then talks about helping the Japanese with their flight trajectory.

38:40 – Jim talks about his work on rockets during the

Vietnam War. He mentions a JPL employee who died in Vietnam supporting the Air Force.

43:36 – Jim talks about the usefulness of his book in planning future spacecraft missions.

45:17 – Jim talks about hardware improvements in navigation.

49:40 – Jim talks about some nuclear power plant work he had done.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/2Z5utRP

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319789156

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Guests: James Miller

Host: Cris Alvarez

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