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measure their speed and trajectory using measurements of the Doppler shift, combined with highly accurate signal vector and other measurements.
They were even able to detect when Apollo-11 abruptly stopped descending to the lunar surface and began to climb in altitude. This was the result of Neil Armstrong taking manual control of the Lunar Module to find a suitable landing site, after noting that the site that the automated system was headed for was strewn with large boulders.