The facetious rendezvous radar of Apollo

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This video shows that the 1202 alarm which happened in the descent of Apollo 11 had nothing with data received by the rendezvous radar, but had a purely internal cause, and that it could have been avoided with a hardware modification.
But it also shows that the management of the rendezvous radar by the AGC always ends with an abort, whatever the circumstances.
Link to the mission report of Apollo 11 (contains the description of the 1202 alarm):
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/pdf/A11_MissionReport.pdf
Link to the programs of the AGC:
https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/LUM99R2/MAIN.agc.html
Link to the description of the instructions of the AGC:
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/assembly_language_manual.html#The_Interpreter_vs._the_CPU
Link to the description of the communication channels between the AGC and the LGC:
https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminary099/INPUT_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_BIT_DESCRIPTIONS.agc

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