Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
Conrad
Conrad
good.
Ther e again, it might have been a f unction of
the thrusters going out.
In any event, I think that
1 s an error ,;hat somebody
needs to look i nto.
I ' m not sure that pl atfor m mode
is doing what i t should.
I know that , t heoretically,
•
and by t he diagrams on it and the limit s that it
ought to be a very precise control modE!.
Spacecraft separation at SECO + 20 couldn ' t have been
better , just fine.
Translat i on per igeE! adjust went
like cl ockwork.
That was our fir st r eal burn and I thi r.k we got
something like 9. 6 f t/sec on t he IVI ir.stead of
10 .0, but t he burn wasn ' t that crit icaJ .
I checked accelerometer bias and it seE•med like the
accel er ometer bias incr eased l at er in the f light .
I specif ically checked it f or the REP end it was
okay.
I
1d just set up zer os in the wirdow and
went to Catch-Up and they stayed zero for 3 or
4 minutes or longer .
So that satisfied me.
I
checked it l ater on in the f light and I don ' t think
we r an more than a minute and we clickEd up a
f oot per second on the fore- aft window.
That can
be checked on the tape .
In the beginning it was
entirely acceptable for the REP.