{"id":3032,"date":"2014-07-16T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2014-07-16T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T17:21:21","slug":"the-apollo-guidance-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2014\/07\/16\/the-apollo-guidance-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apollo Guidance Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Apollo<\/p>\n

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was an amazing piece of technology for its time. At 12:16 PM EDT, on July 16th, 1969, the Apollo 11 spacecraft began its translunar injection burn to leave its 115 mile-high Earth-orbit thanks to this navigation computer.<\/p>\n

The AGC operated at 1.024 MHz, or one-million cycles per second, to help multitask 8 jobs, all with 2 kilobytes of memory.<\/p>\n

You can try out the AGC yourself with the simulator found at here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Your modern smartphone likely has a CPU designed to run at 2 GHz, or a billion cycles per second, and will often have 2 gigabytes of memory.<\/p>\n

That said, comparing it to the modern smartphone isn’t really fair considering the AGC was a specialized computer designed to perform in a high-stress environment.<\/p>\n

The Apollo Guidance Computer helped to take a spacecraft over 225 thousand miles to the Moon. Thanks to the efforts of the early space pioneers, your smartphone now uses an orbiting network of 24 GPS satellites.<\/p>\n

Where will your technology take you today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was an amazing piece of technology for its time. At 12:16 PM EDT, on July 16th, 1969, the Apollo 11 spacecraft began its translunar injection burn to leave its 115 mile-high Earth-orbit thanks to this navigation computer. The AGC operated at 1.024 MHz, or one-million cycles per second, to help … Continue reading “The Apollo Guidance Computer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12,9,4],"tags":[192,454,191,333,449],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-images","category-news","category-technology","tag-history","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}