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6:37 am
January 14, 2010

Luke Maurits

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I just ordered a copy of this book in preparation for doing a lot more detailed work on navigation stuff. This book is incredibly cheap for what it is (usually textbooks, especially for non-mainstream fields, cost many times this much). Anybody else who is interesting in getting heavily involved in the navigation side of things should definitely consider picking up a copy. When the book arrives I'll post my impressions of it if people want to hold off until then.

Starting a new TA job next week, might be busy for a while! Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.

9:38 pm
January 14, 2010

Rocket-To-The-Moon

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That looks like an interesting book, but it is probably a bit over my head. Let us know if it is readable or mostly a reference book.

BTW, are you having any progress with your wiimote experiment?

Completely offline from 8-14 March. Main Workgroups: Propulsion & Spacecraft Engineering

3:28 am
January 27, 2010

Luke Maurits

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This book arrived in the mail today! I'm looking forward to getting started on it, I will make sure to let everyone know what I think.

This is good timing since I think that most of the CLLARE project is now sketched out in the Overview Document is as much detail as it reasonably can be until we get some real engineers on board, and I am certainly starting to feel like I can't contribute much more without further study, which I sadly just don't have time for. Thus, I will probably finally go ahead with my long-threatened withdrawl to only working on navigation issues in the near future.

Starting a new TA job next week, might be busy for a while! Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.

10:09 pm
January 28, 2010

Rocket-To-The-Moon

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