GUIDANCE by Locke, A. S. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

GUIDANCE

by Locke, A. S.

Princeton (New Jersey), 1955: D. van Nostrand Co., Inc., 729 pages, $12.50

The first volume in the "Principles of Guided Missile Design" series (G. Merrill, ed), "Guidance" covers such topics as fundamental problems of missile guidance, terrestrial and celestial reference, radio wave transmission, infrared, servo system theory, tactical considerations, detection and information gathering, target considerations, analysis of flight paths, pre-launching and launching, missile airframes, computation, and telemetry.

Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III