高阶次月球重力场模型截断下的低轨环月卫星轨道受摄分析

研究低轨月球卫星在月球非球形摄动和地球第三体引力摄动作用下轨道高度变化问题.首先依据Kaula准则比较分析目前国际上公认的最精确的两个重力场模型GLGM-2和LP165P,提出了在一定阶次截断重力场模型的问题,然后通过仿真不同阶次重力场模型作用下轨道高度为50km的圆形极轨道环月卫星轨道特征的变化,验证了 50km以上高度卫星非球形摄动分析时可以将重力场模型截断至一定阶次的结论,并利用截断至70阶次的重力场模型仿真得到了50km和200km圆轨道卫星无控条件下正常运行的时间.最后在仿真地球引力对200km圆轨道卫星高度影响的基础E仿真其在月球非球形和地球引力摄动作用下轨道要素变化,对低轨环月卫星轨道保持控制提供依据.     

地球卫星动力学定轨中摄动模型的选取

地球卫星动力学定轨中需要依据卫星轨道高度考虑不同的摄动项,以提高定轨精度。针对这一需求,分析了不同轨道高度下卫星所受的地球非球形、日月引力、太阳光压和大气阻力4种摄动项对二体模型的校正量,数值仿真表明实验结果与摄动项的力学分析相吻合,另外,给出了地球卫星动力学定轨中不同轨道下卫星摄动项的选取原则。     

SST-LL重力测量卫星轨道分析

论述了SST-LL重力测量卫星科学任务对轨道寿命、地面覆盖性能、轨道高度单圈波动、星间距离变化范围的需求。根据需求,计算了轨道的自然衰减情况,得出轨道初始高度为500km;综合考虑地面覆盖要求及运载火箭能力,得出了最佳轨道倾角为89°;得出了0.002 0偏心率下轨道高度波动范围不超过50km;分析得出星间距离的长周期变化主要受大气阻力影响,初步确定了轨道控制方案,即定期对受大气阻力较大的卫星进行轨道机动。     

地磁扰动期间低轨目标轨道预报的误差修正

针对地磁扰动期间大气密度变化造成的低轨目标较大的轨道预报误差,提出一种根据POES卫星观测的极光能量注入数据改进短期轨道预报的方法。分析表明CHAMP卫星的沿迹大气密度及轨道衰减与极光能量注入具有较好的相关性。通过线性回归方法,建立轨道半长轴衰减及阻力调制系数的修正公式,并使用修正后的阻力调制系数取代两行元(TLE)中的该系数带入SGP4模型进行位置预报。该方案考虑了外推过程中地磁扰动引起的大气密度响应,能更准确地反映外推过程中大气阻力对轨道的影响。将其应用到2008年CHAMP卫星和国际空间站的轨道预报中,结果表明,半长轴和位置的预报误差可分别降低50%和30%左右。进一步对不同年份、不同轨道高度的目标进行了预报误差修正的分析,验证了该方法的普适性。     

论绳系小卫星的应用与技术可行性

借助空间系绳的作用,绳系小卫星增强与扩大了现代小卫星的能力,在空间探测与航天技术中具有独特的功能,可承担一般小卫星不能承担或难以承担的太空使命。本文阐述绳系小卫星在太空使命(空间开发与应用,空间环境探测,以及航天新技术试验与演示等)中的应用及其原理,包括建造微重力空间平台,实现机动变轨,进行空间环境探测,以及利用导体系绳装置生成电能、贮存能量、提升轨道等。通过对小型绳系系统SEDS-1、SEDS-2、PMG、TiPS飞行试验的综述与分析,论述绳系小卫星技术可行性与成熟性,包括系绳的伸展,子星的控制,系绳的切断,子星的再入,导体系绳的电动力学应用,以及长系绳生存能力等。对中国绳系小卫星的应用与技术发展提出方案设想。     

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。     

超低轨航天器气动力分析与减阻设计

轨道降低,航天器受到的气动力增大,气动力对航天器影响显著。考虑自由分子流态 下的超低轨航天器,利用分割法把简单外形的航天器分割为几部分,分别计算各部分的气动 力,然后相加获得总的气动力效果;通过对平面的气动力进行计算分析,提出了超低 轨航天器的减阻设计方法;结果表明：当轨道高度降低到250 km左右时,航天器受到的气动 阻力比500 km高出约2个数量级;一般情况下,超低轨航天器应采用细长体构型,减小迎风 面积;侧面积引起的航天器阻力已经不可忽略,应采用侧面光滑技术,减少侧面阻力;当超 低轨航天器长细比超过一定限度后,随着长细比增大,大气阻力升高。
     

绳系卫星安全捕获策略下的释放最优控制

安全捕获是绳系卫星系统空间应用的一个重要拓展。考虑系绳质量、系统质心变化及状态、控制约束,采用基于Lagrange方程的圆轨道条件下空间绳系网捕系统三维动力学模型。建立了安全捕获模型,推导得到零相对速度条件下的安全捕获末端条件。为保证方法的适用性,将基于Legendre伪谱法的连续时间最优控制问题离散为标准的非线性动态规划问题。最后在考虑释放控制前初始面外角偏差为5°的情况下,通过数值仿真验证了方法的有效性。仿真结果表明：对于远距离释放条件下的安全捕获,系统质心变化不容忽视;最小能量与绳长加速度约束下的控制响应相比最小时间与面内角约束要更平滑。     

基于J2项和大气阻力摄动的卫星编队保持方法研究

研究J2摄动和大气阻力对低轨编队卫星相对位置的影响,在此基础上给出一种编队保 持方案。文中定量分析了J2摄动对编队卫星三轴相对位置的影响,给出了大气阻力对编队 卫 星相对轨道要素影响表达式。在同时考虑两种摄动力前提下,推导给出了x方向受摄动 的漂移量Δx与编队卫星轨道长半轴之差Δa的周期变化量之间的解析关系式,基于 该关系式,设计了单边极限环形式的卫星长期编队保持控制方案。最后通过数学仿真验证了 该方案的可靠性,仿真结果与理论分析相符。该控制方案在计算控制量时只需知道编队卫星 的轨道长半轴之差,容易实现,为工程实践提供依据。
     

绳系卫星系统交会对接的应用与设计

文章介绍了绳系系统交会对接这项新技术在空间中的应用。主要包括:空间站利用系绳与航天器交会对接,实现为空间站提供各种供给;利用绳系系统与空间碎片对接,可回收或转移空间碎片,保护空间环境;利用一级或多级的绳系系统组成轨道转移系统,实现向地球同步轨道或火星轨道上转移和运送有效载荷。文章还介绍了绳系交会对接系统的设计,包括系统的一般控制方法和算法以及系统的结构设计。随着各项相关技术的发展,绳系卫星系统交会对接将发挥更大作用。     

低轨互联网卫星在轨单粒子翻转分析及防护措施

空间单粒子翻转（SEU）对于在轨卫星寿命和可靠性有着较大的影响,然而,针对低轨互联网卫星1000～1200 km的典型极地轨道空间SEU,目前缺少在轨试验验证结果。文章对某型号的两颗卫星在轨7个月以来的SEU事件记录数据进行处理和分析,给出互联网卫星1050～1425 km不同轨道高度上的SEU事件发生的频度、区域及概率,结合在轨运行情况提出互联网卫星在轨单粒子翻转的软硬件防护设计措施。数据表明,在当前低轨互联网卫星的典型轨道高度上,对于抗单粒子翻转阈值为0.7 MeV·cm2/mg的低阈值SRAM器件,在轨SEU事件大部分发生在SAA区域,发生概率约为7.63×10-7 bit-1·d-1。结合卫星在轨空间防护设计经验,通过加强元器件选用控制、软硬件冗余设计、关键器件限流等措施,可以有效提高低轨互联网卫星的在轨可靠性。     

Electrodynamic Tethered Deorbit System Dynamics and Performance Analysis

Electrodynamic tethered deorbit technology is a novel way to remove abandoned spacecrafts like upper stages or unusable satellites. This paper investigates and analyses the deorbit performance and mission applicability of the electrodynamic tethered system. To do so, the electrodynamic tethered deorbit dynamics with multi-perturbation is firstly formulated, where the Earth magnetic field, the atmospheric drag, and the Earth oblateness effect are considered. Then, the key system parameters, including payload mass, tether length and tether type, are analyzed by numerical simulations to investigate their influences on the deorbit performance and to give the setting principles for choosing system parameters. Based on this and given an appropriate group of system parameters, numerical simulations are undertaken to study the impact of the mission parameters, including orbit height and orbit inclination, and thus to investigate the mission applicability of the electrodynamic tethered deorbit technology.     

Ariane 5 ECA's upper stage perigee reduction via passivation manoeuvre

When Ariane 5 ECA development has been decided by Europe to increase Ariane 5 performance, the rule of 25 years in GTO orbit for the upper stage has been anticipated. This was 14 years ago and this rule was known to be satisfied with a perigee lower than 250 km. Even when lowering slightly Ariane 5 ECA performance, this maximum perigee altitude has been held and the whole Launch System has been developed under CNES responsibility with this GTO perigee. In the meantime, more precise calculations demonstrated that such a GTO perigee was giving for the ESCA a mean lifetime higher than 25 years. So studies are in progress inside CNES to decrease the perigee and re-enter inside the 25 years lifetime domain. This paper presents a CNES study to reduce the orbital lifetime of Ariane 5's upper stage that last in GTO after each commercial mission. Usually the aimed orbit has a perigee altitude of 250 km, an apogee altitude near to the geostationary position and an inclination between 2° and 7°. These conditions make stage's mean lifetime superior to 90 years. The CNES study is to expose the possibility to decrease this lifetime by reducing the perigee altitude of the final upper stage orbit through a passivation process optimised to produce orbit modification. It is shown that taking into account material and functional stage constraints the optimised passivation process is able to decrease the perigee by a few tenths of kilometres.     

Stability and control of electrodynamic tethers for de-orbiting applications

Electrodynamic tethers provide a very promising propulsion system for de-orbiting of spent upper stages or LEO satellites. In this application, the Lorentz force generated by the interaction between the current in the wire and the geomagnetic field produces an electrodynamic drag leading to a fast orbital decay. The attractiveness of tether system lies especially in their capability to operate with uncontrollable satellites and in the modest mass requirement.The need for significant along-track forces leads however to the onset of an undesirable torque which, if not controlled, may drive the system into a dangerous instability. The electrodynamic torque determines in-plane and out-of-plane librations whose amplitude depends upon the current in the wire, mass distribution and system dimensions. Even more important, this torque is modulated along the orbit due to the changing magnetic field and ionospheric plasma density, giving rise to forced oscillations. The counteracting (and stabilizing) gravity-gradient torque is generally to small to ensure stability in typical, strongly non-symmetrical mass distributions, where a massive satellite or upper stage is attached at the lower end and a light electron collecting device (or passive ballast mass) is deployed a few kilometers above. Reducing the electron current or increasing the mass at the upper end are both unattractive solutions.In this paper we show how the electrodynamic torque pumps energy into the system (finally leading to large librations angles) and indicate that many proposed configurations are intrinsically unstable. Our results point out the need for a control strategy. Fortunately, the librations amplitudes can be limited by acting on the current flowing in the wire. Our model of a rigid, conductive tether shows that a control based upon timely current switch-off, using energy criteria, is indeed effective and simple to implement. The resultant duty-cycles are satisfactory and affect only marginally the de-orbiting times.     

Benefits and risks of using electrodynamic tethers to de-orbit spacecraft

By using electrodynamic drag to greatly increase the orbital decay rate, an electrodynamic space tether can remove spent or dysfunctional spacecraft from low Earth orbit (LEO) rapidly and safely. Moreover, the low mass requirements of such tether devices make them highly advantageous compared to conventional rocket-based de-orbit systems. However, a tether system is much more vulnerable to space debris impacts than a typical spacecraft and its design must be proved to be safe up to a certain confidence level before being adopted for potential applications. To assess space debris related concerns, in March 2001 a new task (Action Item 19.1) on the “Potential Benefits and Risks of Using Electrodynamic Tethers for End-of-life De-orbit of LEO Spacecraft” was defined by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC). Two tests were proposed to compute the fatal impact rate of meteoroids and orbital debris on space tethers in circular orbits, at different altitudes and inclinations, as a function of the tether diameter to assess the survival probability of an electrodynamic tether system during typical de-orbiting missions. IADC members from three agencies, the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), participated in the study and different computational approaches were specifically developed within the framework of the IADC task. This paper summarizes the content of the IADC AI 19.1 Final Report. In particular, it introduces the potential benefits and risks of using tethers in space, it describes the assumptions made in the study plan, it compares and discusses the results obtained by ASI, JAXA and NASA for the two tests proposed. Some general conclusions and recommendations are finally extrapolated from this massive and intensive piece of research.     

On the possibility of long-time existence of submicron particles injected in elongated elliptical orbits with low perigee in the near-Earth space

On the basis of numerical experiments the theoretical possibility of long-time (longer than 1 month) and superlong-time (longer than 1 year) existence in orbit of technogenic microparticles (MPs) with radii of a few hundredths of a micrometer is demonstrated. MPs are injected into the near-Earth space (NES) in elongated elliptical low-perigee orbits with parameters, corresponding to Molniya satellite’s orbital parameters. Calculations were carried out taking into account disturbing effects on the MP orbital motion in NES of the following factors: the gravitational disturbance caused by polar oblateness of the Earth, the solar pressure force (calculated with using the techniques of the Mie theory), the drag force of a neutral component of background gas, as well as the electrodynamic forces caused by interaction of electric charge, induced on MPs, with the magnetic and electric fields of the NES.     

长期在轨运行卫星的轨道维持技术

本文研究近地轨道卫星长期在轨运行的轨道维持问题。轨道维持的任务是将卫星的星下点轨迹保持在设计的参考轨迹附近。近地轨道卫星所受的摄动力包括地球引力摄动、日月摄动、大气阻力摄动和光压摄动等,而影响卫星轨道星下点漂移的主要因素是大气阻力摄动。本文给出了一种新的卫星轨道维持策略,数学仿真表明了其有效性。     

高层大气模型对空间站轨道漂移和寿命的影响分析

本文以轨道摄动分析方法一阶理论为基础，其中大气阻力摄动采用数值积分方法，给出一种可利用各种大气模型进行轨道摄动分析的计算方法，并利用三种高层大气模型（ＣＩＲＡ—７２，ＣＩＲＡ—８６和ＤＴＭ）和三个太阳活动水平（Ｆ１０．７＝１００，１５０和２００）分析比较了大气阻力振动对高度为４００ｋｍ的空间站轨道漂移和寿命的影响，以及估算修正轨道漂移所需的能量。给出的定量分析结果将为空间站或航天飞行器的轨道设计和能量估算提供依据。