Source Code
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This source code is very close to the Apollo Guidance Computer software for the
Apollo 13 Lunar module. This revision of the Luminary 131 program is from December
of 1969, whereas there was a later revision in January of 1970, and still another
revision in February, which is the code that flew on the mission.
As far as this transcription is concerned, it was originally from a copy made in 1991 of
a printout from the collection of AGC developer Don Eyles for collector David Craig.
It was subsequently scanned by Gary Neff, reprocessed for online
presentation at the now-discontinued History of Recent Science and Technology (HRST) website
of MIT's Dibner Institute (the full-quality scans being discarded in the process),
and finally transcribed by Ron Burkey for the Virtual AGC Project. Although a
high-quality replacement scan for a completely illegible page was later provided by Gary
Neff, the reduced legibility of the reprocessed HRST posting nevertheless caused many
errors to be introduced into the transcription. Accordingly, a second scan of the same physical
printout was made in 2017 for the Virtual AGC Project's collection at the Internet Archive,
and used to correct the transcription errors. All of the scanned materials mentioned,
as well as other Luminary 131 related material, are available online.
Don Eyles apprently made additional hand-written notes in printout between 1991 and 2017,
so the two scans are not identical in that respect. The page-headings in the printout read, in part:GAP: ASSEMBLE REVISION 131 OF AGC PROGRAM LUMINARY BY NASA 2021112-091 17:53 DEC. 19, 1969Note that the date is the date the printout was made, not the date on which the program revision was released, although these happen to be very close together. |
020757,000002: ## Copyright: Public domain.
020758,000003: ## Filename: S-BAND_ANTENNA_FOR_LM.agc
020759,000004: ## Purpose: A section of Luminary 1C, revision 131.
020760,000005: ## It is part of the source code for the Lunar Module's (LM)
020761,000006: ## Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) for Apollo 13.
020762,000007: ## This file is intended to be a faithful transcription, except
020763,000008: ## that the code format has been changed to conform to the
020764,000009: ## requirements of the yaYUL assembler rather than the
020765,000010: ## original YUL assembler.
020766,000011: ## Reference: pp. 490-493
020767,000012: ## Contact: Ron Burkey <info@sandroid.org>.
020768,000013: ## Website: www.ibiblio.org/apollo/index.html
020769,000014: ## Mod history: 05/14/03 RSB. Began transcribing.
020770,000015: ## 05/14/05 RSB Corrected website references above.
020771,000016: ## 2017-01-06 RSB Page numbers now agree with those on the
020772,000017: ## original harcopy, as opposed to the PDF page
020773,000018: ## numbers in 1701.pdf.
020774,000019: ## 2017-02-24 RSB Proofed comment text using octopus/ProoferComments.
020775,000020:
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020777,000022: # SUBROUTINE NAME: R05 - S-BAND ANTENNA FOR LM
020778,000023:
020779,000024: # MOD0 BY T. JAMES
020780,000025: # MOD1 BY P. SHAKIR
020781,000026:
020782,000027: # FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
020783,000028:
020784,000029: # THE S-BAND ANTENNA ROUTINE, R05, COMPUTES AND DISPLAYS THE PITCH AND
020785,000030: # YAW ANTENNA GIMBAL ANGLES REQUIRED TO POINT THE LM STEERABLE ANTENNA
020786,000031: # TOWARD THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. THIS ROUTINE IS SELECTED BY THE ASTRO-
020787,000032: # NAUT VIA DSKY ENTRY DURING COASTING FLIGHT OR WHEN THE LM IS ON THE MOON
020788,000033: # SURFACE. THE EARTH OR MOON REFERENCE COORDINATE SYSTEM IS USED DEPENDING
020789,000034: # ON WHETHER THE LM IS ABOUT TO ENTER OR HAS ALREADY ENTERED THE MOON
020790,000035: # SPHERE OF INFLUENCE, RESPECTIVELY. CAN BE CALLED ANY TIME EXCEPT WHEN
020791,000036: # ANOTHER EXTENDED VERB IS IN USE. DISPLAY IS MEANINGLESS WITH IMU OFF.
020792,000037:
020793,000038: # TO CALL SUBROUTINE, ASTRONAUT KEYS IN V 64 E
020794,000039:
020795,000040: # SUBROUTINES CALLED -
020796,000041: # INTPRET
020797,000042: # LOADTIME
020798,000043: # LEMCONIC
020799,000044: # LUNPOS
020800,000045: # CDUTRIG
020801,000046: # *SMNB*
020802,000047: # BANKCALL
020803,000048: # B5OFF
020804,000049: # ENDOFJOB
020805,000050: # BLANKET
020806,000051:
020807,000052: # RETURNS WITH
020808,000053: # PITCH ANGLE IN PITCHANG REV. B0
020809,000054: # YAW ANGLE IN YAWANG REV. B0
020810,000055:
020811,000056: # ERASABLES USED
020812,000057: # PITCHANG
020813,000058: # YAWANG
020814,000059: # RLM
020815,000060: # VAC AREA
020816,000061:
020817,000062: 41,3750 BANK 41
020818,000063: 42,2000 SETLOC SBAND
020819,000064: 42,2000 BANK
020820,000065:
020821,000066: 42,3606 E7,1471 EBANK= WHOCARES
020822,000067: 42,3606 COUNT* $$/R05
020823,000068: 42,3606 06042 SBANDANT TC INTPRET
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020825,000070: 42,3607 47001 SETPD RTB
020826,000071: 42,3610 00001 0D
020827,000072: 42,3611 21574 LOADTIME # PICK UP CURRENT TIME
020828,000073: 42,3612 34041 STCALL TDEC1 # ADVANCE INTEGRATION TO TIME IN TDEC1
020829,000074: 42,3613 27077 LEMCONIC # USING CONIC INTEGRATION
020830,000075: 42,3614 46135 SLOAD BHIZ
020831,000076: 42,3615 00050 X2 # X2 =0 EARTH SPHERE, X2 =2 MOON SPHERE
020832,000077: 42,3616 65634 CONV4
020833,000078: 42,3617 77775 VLOAD
020834,000079: 42,3620 00001 RATT
020835,000080: 42,3621 16205 STODL RLM
020836,000081: 42,3622 00015 TAT
020837,000082: 42,3623 77624 CONV3 CALL
020838,000083: 42,3624 33647 LUNPOS # UNIT POSITION VECTOR FROM EARTH TO MOON
020839,000084: 42,3625 74375 VLOAD VXSC
020840,000085: 42,3626 02723 VMOON
020841,000086: 42,3627 24001 REMDIST # MEAN DISTANCE FROM EARTH TO MOON
020842,000087: 42,3630 53372 VSL1 VAD
020843,000088: 42,3631 02205 RLM
020844,000089: 42,3632 77650 GOTO
020845,000090: 42,3633 65636 CONV5
020846,000091: 42,3634 77775 CONV4 VLOAD
020847,000092: 42,3635 00001 RATT # UE = -UNIT(RATT) EARTH SPHERE
020848,000093: 42,3636 53401 CONV5 SETPD UNIT # UE = -UNIT((REM)(UEM) + RL) MOON SPHERE
020849,000094: 42,3637 00001 0D # SET PL POINTER TO 0
020850,000095: 42,3640 45076 VCOMP CALL
020851,000096: 42,3641 47541 CDUTRIG # COMPUTE SINES AND COSINES OF CDU ANGLES
020852,000097: 42,3642 76521 MXV VSL1 # TRANSFORM REF. COORDINATE SYSTEM TO
020853,000098: 42,3643 01734 REFSMMAT # STABLE MEMBER B-1 X B-1 X B+1 = B-1
020854,000099: 42,3644 71206 PUSH DLOAD # 8D
020855,000100: 42,3645 06524 HI6ZEROS
020856,000101: 42,3646 02201 STORE PITCHANG
020857,000102: 42,3647 26203 STOVL YAWANG # ZERO OUT ANGLES
020858,000103: 42,3650 77624 CALL
020859,000104: 42,3651 47673 *SMNB*
020860,000105: 42,3652 16205 STODL RLM # PRE-MULTIPLY RLM BY (NBSA) MATRIX(B0)
020861,000106: 42,3653 02207 RLM +2
020862,000107: 42,3654 45206 PUSH DSU
020863,000108: 42,3655 02205 RLM
020864,000109: 42,3656 77605 DMP
020865,000110: 42,3657 25767 1OVSQRT2
020866,000111: 42,3660 16207 STODL RLM +2
020867,000112: 42,3661 41215 DAD DMP
020868,000113: 42,3662 02205 RLM
020869,000114: 42,3663 25767 1OVSQRT2
020870,000115: 42,3664 26205 STOVL RLM # R B-1
020871,000116: 42,3665 02205 RLM
020872,000117: 42,3666 63256 UNIT PDVL
020873,000118: 42,3667 02205 RLM
020874,000119: 42,3670 72431 VPROJ VSL2 # PROJECTION OF R ONTO LM XZ PLANE
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020876,000121: 42,3671 06520 HIUNITY
020877,000122: 42,3672 40045 BVSU BOV # CLEAR OVERFLOW INDICATOR IF ON
020878,000123: 42,3673 02205 RLM
020879,000124: 42,3674 65675 COVCNV
020880,000125: 42,3675 40056 COVCNV UNIT BOV # EXIT ON OVERFLOW
020881,000126: 42,3676 65743 SBANDEX
020882,000127: 42,3677 47206 PUSH VXV # URP VECTOR B-1
020883,000128: 42,3700 06516 HIUNITZ
020884,000129: 42,3701 57572 VSL1 VCOMP # UZ X URP = -(URP X UZ)
020885,000130: 42,3702 02205 STORE RLM # X VEC B-1
020886,000131: 42,3703 63241 DOT PDVL # SGN(X.UY) UNSCALED
020887,000132: 42,3704 06520 HIUNITY
020888,000133: 42,3705 02205 RLM
020889,000134: 42,3706 75246 ABVAL SIGN
020890,000135: 42,3707 77736 ASIN # ASIN((SGN(X.UY))ABV(X)) REV B0
020891,000136: 42,3710 26201 STOVL PITCHANG
020892,000137: 42,3711 00007 URP
020893,000138: 42,3712 51041 DOT BPL
020894,000139: 42,3713 06516 HIUNITZ
020895,000140: 42,3714 65721 NOADJUST # YES, -90 TO +90
020896,000141: 42,3715 45345 DLOAD DSU
020897,000142: 42,3716 06522 HIDPHALF
020898,000143: 42,3717 02201 PITCHANG
020899,000144: 42,3720 02201 STORE PITCHANG
020900,000145: 42,3721 47375 NOADJUST VLOAD VXV
020901,000146: 42,3722 00001 UR # Z = (UR X URP)
020902,000147: 42,3723 00007 URP
020903,000148: 42,3724 77772 VSL1
020904,000149: 42,3725 16205 STODL RLM # Z VEC B-1
020905,000150: 42,3726 02201 PITCHANG
020906,000151: 42,3727 74356 SIN VXSC
020907,000152: 42,3730 06516 HIUNITZ
020908,000153: 42,3731 71525 PDDL COS
020909,000154: 42,3732 02201 PITCHANG
020910,000155: 42,3733 52361 VXSC VSU
020911,000156: 42,3734 06522 HIUNITX # (UX COS ALPHA) - (UZ SIN ALPHA)
020912,000157: 42,3735 63241 DOT PDVL # YAW.Z
020913,000158: 42,3736 02205 RLM
020914,000159: 42,3737 02205 RLM
020915,000160: 42,3740 75246 ABVAL SIGN
020916,000161: 42,3741 77736 ASIN
020917,000162: 42,3742 02203 STORE YAWANG
020918,000163: 42,3743 77776 SBANDEX EXIT
020919,000164: 42,3744 31043 CA EXTVBACT
020920,000165: 42,3745 74747 MASK BIT5 # IS BIT5 STILL ON
020921,000166: 42,3746 00006 EXTEND
020922,000167: 42,3747 15472 BZF ENDEXT # NO
020923,000168: 42,3750 35017 CAF PRIO5
020924,000169: 42,3751 05146 TC PRIOCHNG
020925,000170: 42,3752 33765 CAF V06N51 # DISPLAY ANGLES
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020927,000172: 42,3753 04616 TC BANKCALL
020928,000173: 42,3754 20353 CADR GOMARKFR
020929,000174: 42,3755 05563 TC B5OFF # TERMINATE
020930,000175: 42,3756 05563 TC B5OFF # PROCEED
020931,000176: 42,3757 05155 TC ENDOFJOB # RECYCLE
020932,000177: 42,3760 34751 CAF BIT3 # IMMEDIATE RETURN
020933,000178: 42,3761 05464 TC BLANKET # BLANK R3
020934,000179: 42,3762 34740 CAF PRIO4
020935,000180: 42,3763 05146 TC PRIOCHNG
020936,000181: 42,3764 03606 TC SBANDANT # YES, CONTINUE DISPLAYING ANGLES.
020937,000182: 42,3765 01463 V06N51 VN 0651
020938,000183: 42,3766 26501 07463 1OVSQRT2 2DEC .7071067815 # 1/SQRT(2)
020939,000184:
020940,000185: 42,3770 UR EQUALS 0D
020941,000186: 42,3770 URP EQUALS 6D
020942,000187: 42,3770 30,2000 SBANK= LOWSUPER
020943,000188:
End of include-file S-BAND_ANTENNA_FOR_LM.agc. Parent file is MAIN.agc