Apollo Experience Report - Guidance and Control Systems: Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System Development (NASA TN D-8227)

The record

Author

M. D. Holley, W. L. Swingle, S. L. Bachman, C. J. LeBlanc, H. T. Howard and H. M. Biggs

Type

Government document

Tier

A: Vendor documentation, a government document, a technical manual or an official benchmark result. One tier A source is sufficient to publish a figure.

Locator

NASA TN D-8227, computer subsystem, pages 24-30; table I "Computer characteristics" on page 26

Published

May 1976

Consulted

2026-07-28

Address

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19760016247/downloads/19760016247.pdf

Retrieved

13115888 bytes, SHA-256 cb6eedb8e9690205… Recorded by the pipeline as evidence of what was downloaded, never as a fact about the hardware.

License

Public domain (work of the United States Government)

Figures citing this source

• Instruction execution time component · agc-block-ii
• Clock frequency component · agc-block-ii
• Memory cycle time component · agc-block-ii
• Instruction execution time component · agc-block-ii
• Peak FP32 rate component · agc-block-ii
• Peak FP64 rate component · agc-block-ii
• Memory capacity (words) component · agc-core-rope
• Memory capacity (words) component · agc-erasable-core
• Memory bandwidth system · apollo-guidance-computer-block-ii
• Rated power consumption system · apollo-guidance-computer-block-ii
• Whole-system power draw system · apollo-guidance-computer-block-ii
• Memory capacity (words) system · apollo-guidance-computer-block-ii

Records built on it

• Apollo Guidance Computer (Block II) system
• Apollo Guidance Computer Block II processor cpu
• Apollo Guidance Computer core rope memory memory
• Apollo Guidance Computer erasable core memory memory