基于GPS对地球同步轨道自动转移飞行器进行导航的可行性分析

研究利用GPS对地球同步轨道自动转移飞行器进行导航的方法,分析了飞行器在转移过程中可用的GPS卫星数目,在地心惯性坐标系下建立了惯导误差和GPS的伪距、伪距变率模型,采用渐消因子的自适应卡尔曼滤波对飞行器进行组合导航.仿真结果表明,可用GPS卫星的数目随着飞行器高度的增高而减少,因此无法利用单一历元观测信息直接对飞行器导航.但采用多历元观测信息和动力学模型相结合的滤波方法可对飞行器进行组合导航,当飞行器初始位置偏差为1 km,初始速度偏差为1 m/s,伪距及伪距变率观测均方差分别为10 m和0.05 m/s时,地球同步轨道自动转移飞行器的最终位置偏差小于50 m,速度偏差小于0.02 m/s.      

超低轨道地球卫星脉冲星/星光折射/光谱组合导航

针对超低轨道地球卫星导航自主需求,提出了一种脉冲星/星光折射/光谱测速组合天文导航方法。首先根据地球超低轨道卫星运行轨道动力学方程建立导航系统状态模型;分别根据脉冲到达时间差和星光折射角与天体光谱频率建立导航系统量测模型;使用Unscented卡尔曼滤波方法,降低随机误差对导航精度的影响,使用基于UKF的信息融合方法,有效融合了三种天文导航方法结果数据。经计算机仿真分析,该组合导航方法位置导航误差均值为85.62m,速度误差均值0.190m/s,能够满足超低轨道地球卫星在轨运行导航需求。     

火星探测巡航段天文自主导航方法研究

对于火星探测巡航段的自主导航问题,提出了一种基于太阳及行星观测的自主导航方法。在巡航段初期及后期,根据探测器在太阳系中的位置关系,分别选择太阳、地球及太阳、火星作为观测目标,采用星载太阳敏感器和光学相机测量导航天体实现矢量,建立观测方程。利用非线性扩展卡尔曼滤波,分别建立两种观测方案对应的导航算法。仿真结果表明巡航段导航定位精度优于100 km,定速精度1 m/s。该方法实现简单,系统资源要求不高,对未来火星探测具有一定的工程参考价值。     

一种基于太阳震荡时间延迟量测的自主天文导航方法

太阳震荡可以在短时间内引起太阳光强度和光谱线心波长的剧烈变化,通过探测太阳光强度和光谱线心波长并记录时间,可以获得直接接收的太阳光到达时间和经天体反射的太阳光到达时间之间的时间延迟,可以利用时间延迟作为量测量提供航天器的位置信息。提出了一种基于太阳震荡时间延迟量测的自主天文导航方法;建立了基于时间延迟的隐式量测模型,并应用了IUKF方法。仿真结果表明：本文所提出的导航方法,应用在转移轨道上的位置误差和速度误差分别约为3.55 km和0.077 m/s,环绕轨道分别为1.76 km和1.57 m/s。同时也研究了3种因素对导航性能的影响。     

一种基于太阳自转轴观测角的新型天文导航方法

针对太阳探测器,提出一种基于太阳自转轴观测角的新型天文导航方法,通过光谱仪测量太阳圆盘面边缘上两组连线互相垂直点的速度差值,建立速度差值与太阳自转轴观测角的数学模型,并以该观测角作为量测量来提供探测器的位置信息。仿真结果表明:相较于传统以太阳视方向作为量测量的导航方法,以太阳自转轴观测角作为量测量的新型天文导航方法的导航精度提高了17.4%。此外,还分析了测速敏感器精度、滤波周期和轨道倾角对导航性能的影响,为深空探测自主导航提供了新的理论与方法。     

TESS发现振荡红巨星遍布整个天空

NASA网站2021年8月5日报道,利用系外行星凌星巡天卫星(TESS)的观测结果,研究发现发生振荡现象的红巨星遍布整个天空.相关研究结果发表在The Astrophysical Journal上. 在恒星表面之下,热气体上升后逐渐冷却随后下沉并被再次加热,这种运动产生了反应压力变化声波.声波相互作用最终产生了周期为数分钟的稳定振荡,导致恒星发生微小的亮度变化.例如,振荡引发的太阳亮度变化仅为百万分之几,而质量与太阳接近的巨型恒星的振荡则要慢得多,因此亮度变化程度是太阳的数百倍.     

高分-5卫星两台载荷传回数据和图像

正2018年5月9日2时28分,我国首颗高光谱分辨率大气环境观测卫星高分-5在太原卫星发射中心成功发射。高分-5卫星是高分辨率对地观测系统重大专项中唯一一颗实现高光谱分辨率的对地观测卫星,是国际上首颗大气和陆地综合高光谱观测卫星,是实现国家高分辨率对地观测能力的重要标志之一。高分-5卫星运行在轨道高度705km的太阳同步轨道,卫星设计寿命8年。星上搭载了6种有效载荷,是高分系列卫星中搭载载荷最多的卫星。其中,主要载荷大气环境红外甚高光谱分辨率探测仪和全谱段光谱成像     

基于位置观测的北斗广播星历速度精度分析

利用广播星历计算导航卫星的速度向量是GNSS高精度实时测速的必要条件.本文分析了仅以卫星位置向量为观测量的北斗广播星历的速度计算精度.从广播星历拟合过程出发,推导了北斗18参数模型的速度向量计算公式.基于北斗13颗在轨卫星一年的实际轨道数据,分析了全年广播星历计算卫星速度向量的精度.结果表明,利用18参数模型计算的速度误差最大在10-4m·-1量级;在相同拟合时段条件下,地球静止轨道（GEO）和倾斜地球同步轨道（IGSO）卫星的速度精度相当,高于中圆地球轨道（MEO）卫星.通过对位置残差序列分析,得出位置残差误差较小且变化趋势平稳是广播星历计算速度精度较高的原因.分析和计算结果验证了仅用位置观测量拟合北斗广播星历算法的有效性.      

面向编队飞行的天文多普勒差分/脉冲星组合导航

太阳光较强,太阳多普勒差分导航测量精度高,但难以提供多方位速度信息。恒星星光弱,恒星多普勒差分导航测量精度低,但可提供多方位速度信息。为了提高航天器的天文自主导航能力,提出一种面向编队飞行的天文多普勒差分/脉冲星组合导航方法。利用3颗及以上的脉冲星导航是完全可观测的,但滤波周期较长,难以获得连续的导航信息。3种导航方法具有互补性,可以进行组合导航。利用扩展卡尔曼滤波器作为导航滤波器来融合天文多普勒差分和脉冲到达时间,并为编队飞行提供绝对和相对导航信息。仿真结果表明,该组合导航方法能为编队飞行提供高精度的绝对和相对导航信息。     

材料粗糙度变化对卫星光谱红化效应的影响

在轨人造目标的地基观测光谱存在红化效应，影响对目标反射光谱的理解应用.目标在进入空间环境后外露材料表面粗糙度发生变化.本文结合材料的光谱散射特性、卫星轨道和观测条件，仿真分析了卫星表面材料粗糙度变化对红化效应的影响.基于文献中实验数据，设计不同粗糙度的卫星表面材料样本，模拟空间环境中材料表面粗糙度的变化.利用双向反射分布函数，建立不同粗糙度材料样本的光谱散射模型.理论模拟结果表明，材料表面粗糙度的变化会影响其光谱散射特性，散射光谱形态和散射分布取决于粗糙度及入射-反射几何关系.引入网格剖分和可见面片，利用材料双向反射分布函数，仿真计算卫星表面材料在不同粗糙度状态下，整个卫星在可见光波段的反射光谱信号.仿真结果表明，随着卫星表面材料粗糙度的增加，其反射光谱在600nm之后随波长增加而呈现上升趋势，这表明空间环境中外露材料表面粗糙度变化是卫星产生红化效应的原因之一.      

Extrasolar space exploration by a solar sail accelerated via thermal desorption of coating

For extrasolar space exploration it might be very convenient to take advantage of space environmental effects such as solar radiation heating to accelerate a solar sail coated by materials that undergo thermal desorption at a particular temperature. Thermal desorption can provide additional thrust as heating liberates atoms, embedded on the surface of the solar sail. We are considering orbital dynamics of a solar sail coated with materials that undergo thermal desorption at a specific temperature, as a result of heating by solar radiation at a particular heliocentric distance, and focus on two scenarios that only differ in the way the sail approaches the Sun. For each scenario once the perihelion is reached, the sail coat undergoes thermal desorption. When the desorption process ends, the sail then escapes the Solar System having the conventional acceleration due to solar radiation pressure. We study the dependence of a cruise speed of a solar sail on perihelion of the orbit where the solar sail is deployed. The following scenarios are considered and analyzed: (1) Hohmann transfer plus thermal desorption. In this scenario the sail would be carried as a payload to the perihelion with a conventional propulsion system by a Hohmann transfer from Earth’s orbit to an orbit very close to the Sun and then be deployed. Our calculations show that the cruise speed of the solar sail varies from 173?km/s to 325?km/s that corresponds to perihelion 0.3?AU and 0.1 AU, respectively. (2) Elliptical transfer plus Slingshot plus thermal desorption. In this scenario the transfer occurs from Earth’s orbit to Jupiter’s orbit; then a Jupiter’s fly-by leads to the orbit close to the Sun, where the sail is deployed and thermal desorption comes active. In this case the cruise speed of the solar sail varies from 187?km/s to 331?km/s depending on the perihelion of the orbit. Our study analyses and compares the different scenarios in which thermal desorption comes beside traditional propulsion systems for extrasolar space exploration.     

First calibration measurements with the dust impact detector DIDSY-IPM

The IPM detector consists of two separate impact ionization detectors, one of them covered by a 2.5 μm thick plastic film and a piezoelectric sensor mounted to the back of the joint impact plate. First impact tests, with iron projectiles in the mass range 10^?15 to 10^?9 g and in the speed range 1 km/s to 70 km/s, were performed with the calibration (FS) and the flight (F) model of this detector. The charge yield at 69 km/s impact speed (flyby speed of GIOTTO) has been extrapolated from the data and amounts to 400 Coulombs per gram. This corresponds to a preliminary sensitivity threshold for the impact ionization detector of about 6×10^?17 g. The penetration limit introduced by the plastic film is about 10^?14 g for iron particles. Only the biggest particles used for the test produced signals at the piezoelectric sensor. If one assumes an energy dependence of the piozoelectric signal, a preliminary sensitivity threshold of about 10^?13 g at 69 km/s can be established.     

海尔-波普彗星离子尾的间断和波动

给出海尔-波普彗星近日点附近大尺度观测的结果.指出:1997年2月16、17和18日海尔-波普彗星等离子尾部分有断尾事件发生.观测时刻的离子尾内物质运动速度约为50km／s;离子尾射线向主尾主轴的并拢速度约为0.080'／s.1997年3月3日海尔-波普彗星离子尾有波动现象发生.波动发生在距离彗星密度中心约130×104km,偏离主轴30°处,振幅约20×104km、其离子束宽度约8×104km、波动的相速度约为200km／s.      

Assessment of the consequences of the Fengyun-1C breakup in low Earth orbit

On 11 January 2007, the People’s Republic of China conducted a successful anti-satellite test against one of their defunct polar-orbiting weather satellites. The target satellite, called Fengyun-1C, had a mass of 880 kg and was orbiting at an altitude of about 863 km when the collision occurred. Struck by a direct-ascent interceptor at a speed of 9.36 km/s, the satellite disintegrated, spreading the cataloged fragments between 200 and 4000 km, with the highest concentration near the breakup height. By the end of April 2008, 2377 pieces of debris, including the original payload remnant, had officially been cataloged by the US Space Surveillance Network. Of these, nearly 1% had reentered the Earth’s atmosphere. This deliberate act is the largest debris-generating event on record, and its consequences will adversely affect circumterrestrial space for many years.     

Immediate and long-term prospects for helioseismology

Recent extensive measurements of frequencies of free oscillation of the Sun have permitted a first direct estimate of the variation of sound speed and angular velocity throughout the Sun. The results hint that the answers to some tantalizing questions concerning the Sun's interior structure and its history are almost within grasp. Optimists like myself believe that in a few years a worldwide network of ground-based observing stations will give us important clues. However, it may be necessary to make observations from space before we can be sure of the answers.     

Two-velocity structure observed in the inner solar wind

Measurements of the motion of plasma density inhomogeneities in the inner solar wind are presented. The speeds were estimated using a cross-correlation analysis of radio frequency fluctuations of the Galileo spacecraft measured simultaneously at widely spaced ground stations. The radial projections of the correlation baselines on the pattern plane were of the order of several thousand kilometers. For cross-correlation functions calculated with comparatively short averaging times, we find that a pronounced two-velocity configuration is occasionally observed over the range of heliocentric distances 20 R < R < 40 R. The typical mean speed for such observations is about 300–400 km/s and the difference between the two predominant speeds is about 150–200 km/s. These results may indicate that the density fluctuations are associated with slow magnetosonic waves propagating in opposite directions at the local speed of sound in the reference frame moving with the mean solar wind speed. Quite reasonable estimates of the solar wind speed and speed of sound are obtained from this model. Another possible explanation of the two-velocity structures is that two independent solar wind streams are present simultaneously along different segments of the radio ray path.     

Propagation of interplanetary shocks into the Earth’s magnetosphere

This paper is devoted to the study of propagation of disturbances caused by interplanetary shocks (IPS) through the Earth’s magnetosphere. Using simultaneous observations of various fast forward shocks by different satellites in the solar wind, magnetosheath and magnetosphere from 1995 till 2002, we traced the interplanetary shocks into the Earth’s magnetosphere, we calculated the velocity of their propagation into the Earth’s magnetosphere and analyzed fronts of the disturbances. From the onset of disturbances at different satellites in the magnetosphere we obtained speed values ranging from 500 to 1300 km/s in the direction along the IP shock normal, that is in a general agreement with results of previous numerical MHD simulations. The paper discusses in detail a sequence of two events on November 9th, 2002. For the two cases we estimated the propagation speed of the IP shock caused disturbance between the dayside and nightside magnetosphere to be 590 km/s and 714–741 km/s, respectively. We partially attributed this increase to higher Alfven speed in the outer magnetosphere due to the compression of the magnetosphere as a consequence of the first event, and partially to the faster and stronger driving interplanetary shock. High-time resolution GOES magnetic field data revealed a complex structure of the compressional wave fronts at the dayside geosynchronous orbit during these events, with initial very steep parts (10 s). We discuss a few possible mechanisms of such steep front formation in the paper.     

太阳质子事件预报和射电Ⅰ型噪暴

太阳是一个异常活跃的天体,其爆发过程会对地球周围空间环境产生重要影响. 通常,单个高能质子即足以引起飞行器中微电子器件出现异常,因此太阳质子事件预报是空间天气预报的重要内容. 关于预报模型的参数选择尚有值得改进之处. 研究认为,Ⅰ型噪暴与日冕加热磁重联具有密切关系,可以作为预报参数. 通过两个典型太阳爆发事件的详细资料分析,说明了Ⅰ型噪暴与质子事件及CME的相关性.      

Prolog／Lisp协处理器板对Prolog部分的支持

Prolog/Lisp协处理器板是为高效支持运行于Sun3/4及其兼容工作站上的Prolog和Lisp这两种人工智能语言而设计的的专用系统。本文在简单介绍Prolog/Lisp指令集中Prolog部分及Prolog/Lisp协处理器的体系结构之后,描述了该协处理器板上支持Prolog中转移,选择点建立、修改和删除等指令及合一中的多路转移操作的专用结构和专用芯片的原理。模拟结果表明,Prolog/Lisp协处理器板可以满足Prolog部分的推理速度(Local Inference Speed)达到500kLIP/s的要求。