考虑燃料均衡的卫星编队队形重构技术

在卫星编队队形重构过程中,如何在实现编队整体燃料消耗较少的同时使得各子卫星燃料消耗均衡,能够有效地提高卫星编队整体的寿命。提出了一种基于虚拟中心位置可变的卫星编队队形重构新方法。该方法以虚拟中心位置为寻优变量,以首末脉冲时刻可优化的双脉冲规划作为单星轨道机动策略,将编队队形重构问题转化为混合0-1数学规划问题。仿真结果表明,该优化算法在实现整体燃料次优的同时,兼顾了各星当前的燃料剩余水平,实现了各子卫星的燃料均衡。     

伴随卫星的燃料-时间优化回收

伴随卫星回收是伴星应用中的一项主要技术。航天任务需求对伴星回收问题不仅提出了最省燃料要求，而且提出了最小时间要求。本文设计了一条稳定的燃料-时间优化回收轨道。从相对运动的Hill方程出发，给出伴星回收问题描述，阐述回收轨道设计思想及稳定回收条件，提出一种有效的螺旋式回收策略，探讨参数确定方法，并对回收轨道的特点和稳定性进行分析，最后研究了燃料消耗量与回收时间及初始相位的关系。仿真结果表明，利用螺旋回收策略，可以保证伴随卫星快速、稳定回收，且能在燃料消耗量与回收时间之间寻求最佳折衷。     

微纳卫星星座的Kuhn-Munkres匹配部署优化方法

针对将半长轴、升交点赤经、纬度辐角均不同的低轨微纳卫星群部署到同一轨道面不同目标相位的星座部署问题，提出一种基于Kuhn Munkres(KM)匹配的星座部署优化方法。通过KM算法实现卫星和目标纬度辐角的优化匹配，充分利用J 2摄动，使升交点赤经借助半长轴和纬度辐角的部署而得到同步修正，从而节约燃料。仿真结果表明，相比于传统部署方法，在相同约束下，优化后的部署方法使各星平均燃耗减少，各星燃耗量均衡性提高。弥补了传统同轨星座部署中将各星初始位置简化为空间一点且忽略部署过程中的升交点赤经漂移的不足。采用有限常值推力实现轨道机动，适用于携带微推力推进系统的微纳卫星。     

微纳InSAR卫星总体技术研究

微纳合成孔径雷达干涉(Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry, InSAR)卫星是对地定量化遥感的重要手段。开展了微纳InSAR卫星系统总体技术研究，给出了使得干涉测量覆盖范围最大的双星编队构型设计方法，建立了低燃料消耗双星轨道参数设计准则，提出高功能密度比InSAR卫星系统的设计方法，包括载荷平台一体化、卫星高集成模块化等总体设计方法，并给出了相应的设计实例。     

Innovation and change? The evolution of Europe's small satellite manufacturers

Since the 1980s a trend has emerged to contain the cost of space missions, which has favored trials in the construction and launch of small satellites. This effort has considerably reduced the cost of the satellites because the construction process uses both traditional components and important technological innovations. There have also been market openings for small satellites, both within the telecommunication sector and for scientific missions and those related to Earth observation. This paper contains the results of a survey of the largest manufacturers of small satellites in Europe and investigates how far (if at all) they have changed the structure of the European space industry. It finds that, through the acquisition of small satellite manufacturers, traditional large companies operating in the field of space in Europe have secured for themselves important technological innovations and market opportunities, while maintaining their oligopolistic position.     

基于伴飞模式的补给星轨道设计与优化

针对采用伴飞模式的星座燃料补给问题,本文对其补给星的轨道进行了设计与优化。在给出补给星的轨道设计之后,利用遗传算法对补给星轨道机动所消耗的燃料质量以及每次转移给工作星的燃料质量进行了优化求解,使得补给星燃料利用率达到最高。仿真结果同时给出了燃料利用率与工作星轨道高度以及星座中卫星数目之间的关系,该结论对采用伴飞模式的星座燃料补给研究提供了较好的理论参考。     

Small satellite's role in future hyperspectral Earth observation missions

Along with various advanced satellite onboard sensors, an important place in the near future will belong to hyperspectral instruments, considered as suitable for different scientific, commercial and military missions. As was demonstrated over the last decade, hyperspectral Earth observations can be provided by small satellites at considerably lower costs and shorter timescales, even though with some limitations on resolution, spectral response, and data rate. In this work the requirements on small satellites with imaging hyperspectral sensors are studied. Physical and technological limitations of hyperspectral imagers are considered. A mathematical model of a small satellite with a hyperspectral imaging spectrometer system is developed. The ability of the small satellites of different subclasses (micro- and mini-) to obtain hyperspectral images with a given resolution and quality is examined. As a result of the feasibility analysis, the constraints on the main technical parameters of hyperspectral instruments suitable for application onboard the small satellites are outlined. Comparison of the data for designed and planned instruments with simulation results validates the presented approach to the estimation of the small satellite size limitations. Presented analysis was carried out for sensors with conventional filled aperture optics.     

Cost-driven design of small satellite remote sensing systems*

Earth remote sensing (alongside communications) is one of the key application of Earth-orbiting satellites. Civilian satellites in the LANDSAT and SPOT series provide Earth images which have been used for a vast spectrum of applications in agriculture, meteorology, hydrology, urban planning and geology, to name but a few. In the defence sector, satellite remote sensing systems are a critical tool in strategic and tactical planning – for the countries which can afford them. To date, remote sensing satellites have fallen into one of these two categories: military missions driven by the requirement for very high resolution and orbital agility; and multipurpose civil satellites using general purpose sensors to serve a diverse community of end users. For military-style missions, the drive to high resolution sets the requirements for optics, attitude control and downlink data bandwidth. For civil missions, the requirement to satisfy multiple, diverse user applications forces compromises on spectral band and orbit selection. Although there are exceptions, many small satellite remote sensing missions carry on in this tradition, concentrating on ultra high resolution products for multiple user communities. This results in satellites costing on the order of US $100 M, not optimised for any particular application. This paper explores an alternative path to satellite remote sensing, aiming simultaneously to reduce cost and to optimise imaging products for specific applications. By decreasing the cost of the remote sensing satellite system to a critical point, it becomes appropriate to optimise the sensor's spectral and temporal characteristics to fit the requirements of a small, specialised user base. The critical engineering trade-off faced in a cost driven mission is how to reduce mission cost while still delivering a useful product to the selected user. At the Surrey Space Centre, we have pursued an engineering path using two dimensional CCD array sensors, commercial off-the-shelf lenses and gravity-gradient stabilised microsatellites. In spite of the inherent limitations of such systems, recent successes with the Thai Microsatellite Company's Thai-Phutt satellite show that a system costing in the region of US $3 million, can approach the spectral and spatial characteristics of LANDSAT. Surrey's UoSAT-12 minisatellite (to be launched April, 1999) will further develop this cost-driven approach to provide 10 m panchromatic resolution and 30 m multi-spectral resolution. This paper describes the Thai-Phutt and UoSAT-12 imaging systems, explaining the engineering methods and trade-offs. Although Surrey is presently the only centre presently pursuing such implementations, our paper shows that they deserve wider consideration.     

编队飞行小卫星相对姿态控制研究

以四元数作为定位参数对编队飞行小卫星进行相对姿态控制。首先给出了以误差四元数作为反馈量 ,基于参考卫星的相对姿态控制律 ,其次 ,研究了由若干颗相同卫星组成的编队卫星 ,在卫星姿态达到指定的方位时 ,相互之间也要满足一定要求的相对姿态控制律。最后进行了仿真计算 ,说明了两种相对姿态控制的有效性和可行性     

低轨Walker星座构型演化及维持策略分析

针对低轨(LEO)Walker星座构型维持问题，分析在地球非球形引力和大气阻力摄动下卫星的运动规律及星座构型演化特性。结果表明，低轨Walker星座构型发散主要体现在由初始轨道参数不一致引起的轨道高度衰减和相位漂移，国内首例低轨Walker星座实测轨道数据验证了理论分析的正确性。结合星座任务特性与构型发散特点，提出了基于基准卫星的相对相位维持策略，选取一颗卫星作为基准卫星，使星座中其它所有卫星相对于基准卫星的相位漂移量累加值最小，通过对目标卫星实施一次相对基准卫星的轨道高度抬升/降低，维持星间的相对位置关系。实际工程应用表明了此策略的有效性，不仅降低星座构型维持的复杂度及频次，节约燃料，且轨控时间短，为我国今后卫星星座的构型维持提供参考。     

长期贮存对卫星典型结构件的形变影响分析

某大型卫星经历了长期的地面贮存,从结构生产完成至卫星发射历时9年。文章提取此卫星承力筒、结构板的工程数据,与同类型其他卫星的数据进行对比分析,总结出长期贮存后卫星承力筒和典型结构板——对地板的形变规律,并探讨影响结构变形的原因。研究结果可为后续卫星的贮存设计、贮存试验以及贮存后影响分析提供指导和借鉴。     

Closed-loop distance-keeping for long-term satellite cluster flight

Cluster flight is a term used for describing multiple satellites that are being held within pre-defined minimum and maximum distances for long time intervals, possibly the entire mission. This technology is required for a myriad of space architectures and missions, including disaggregated space architectures. Whereas the literature is abundant with works on control laws for satellite formation flying, there are only a handful of works on control of cluster flight. The purpose of the current work is to develop a cluster flight control algorithm, which is able to keep the satellites of the cluster within pre-specified minimum and maximum distances, while utilizing small amounts of propellant. The newly developed algorithm relies on the natural inter-satellite distance dynamics. The algorithm incorporates realistic mission constraints, such as constant-magnitude thrust, and is implemented in feedback form, steering the mean elements to judiciously selected reference values. Simulations indicate that a few tens of grams of propellent are sufficient for operating a cluster flight mission in excess of 1 year, using low specific-impulse thrusters.     

考虑地球扁率的大椭圆轨道编队飞行优化设计

大椭圆轨道上卫星编队的相对运动特性及其所受摄动力的影响给编队轨道设计者提出了新的挑战.本文总结了大椭圆轨道卫星编队的五种基本形式,利用数值积分法计算了主星轨道倾角、近地点角和平近点角初值对地球扁率作用下基本编队形式相对位置极值点漂移量的影响规律.结合零J2项摄动条件,提出基于主星平近点角初值的J2项编队相对轨道优化设计方法,进而获得瞬时根数描述的编队初始条件.仿真算例表明：优化设计结果可以明显降低大椭圆轨道编队卫星的相对漂移量,与平根数描述的编队初始条件的设计结果相比,相对距离极大值点的漂移量降低约81.8681%,验证了基于主星平近点角初值的大椭圆轨道编队优化设计方法的可行性.     

摄动椭圆参考轨道的相对运动状态转移方程

当面质比不同的主从卫星在近地轨道上作编队飞行时,大气阻力摄动和J2项摄动就成为影响编队队形的两个最主要的因素,这样描述相对运动的状态转移方程必须考虑这两项摄动。该文利用相对轨道要素法推导了包含J2项摄动和大气阻力摄动参考轨道为椭圆的卫星编队相对运动较精确的状态转移方程。当主从卫星的面质比相等时大气阻力摄动对卫星编队队形的影响很小而可以忽略,这样上面的状态转移方程可以化为更简单的形式。仿真结果表明该状态转移方程能较精确的预测编队飞行的相对运动。     

Control of satellite imaging formations in multi-body regimes

Libration point orbits may be ideal locations for satellite imaging formations. Therefore, control of these arrays in multi-body regimes is critical. A continuous feedback control algorithm is developed that maintains a formation of satellites in motion that is bounded relative to a halo orbit. This algorithm is derived based on the dynamic characteristics of the phase space near periodic orbits in the circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP). By adjusting parameters of the control algorithm appropriately, satellites in the formation follow trajectories that are particularly advantageous to imaging arrays. Image reconstruction and coverage of the (u, v) plane are simulated for interferometric satellite configurations, demonstrating potential applications of the algorithm and the resulting motion.     

Four Decades' Development of China's Recoverable Satellites

This paper reviews the recoverable satellites China has developed over the past forty years.The main missions,technical specifications,scientific and technical experiments of these satellites,including the SJ-10 scientific experiment satellite launched on April 6,2016 are introduced.Recommendations for future technical upgrades for recoverable satellites are also proposed in the paper.     

卫星编队多Agent软件结构仿真研究

随着小卫星技术的发展,今后由多颗微小卫星近距离编队飞行将成为在轨航天器部署的主要形式。本文把多Agent思想引入卫星编队,提出了基于多Agent卫星编队软件结构,根据编队中不同卫星Agent的智能水平和相互关系给出了4种分布形式,在把智能水平最高的主星Agent模块化结构做重点介绍的同时,以避免两星碰撞为例阐述了模糊控制逻辑在主星决策Agent中的应用。     

同时地形高程测量和地面运动目标检测的分布式InSAR最优编队构形

分布式小卫星干涉SAR为了同时获得时间基线(用于地面运动目标检测)和空间基线(用于地形高程测量),采取空间立体编队构形(即非沿航向直线编队),然而这种混合基线的情况会导致地面运动目标与地形杂波存在相位耦合,而且只靠信号处理方法很难分离,这对于检测地面运动目标极为不利。提出几种最优编队构形,在保证获得两种干涉基线的同时,通过对消两对干涉SAR图像来抑制掉固定杂波,从而可以检测地面运动目标,这种方法具有处理简单和性能较好等优点。最后给出了仿真结果。