RPOP

RPOP.

On the final flight of Shuttle Endeavour, an astronaut used RPOP to rendezvous with something or another. (Photo by NASA

The Rendezvous and Proximity Operations Program (RPOP) is a software application used by NASA which allows the Space Shuttle to evade (and/or rendezvous with) large spacefaring cephalopods. It runs on a Comodore 64 laptop running Windows 3.1. Plans are underway to upgrade to Windows 95 before the end of the Shuttle program.

See also

• Adverse Departure Iterative Orbit Simulation
• ANTARES