1980年固体火箭技术的成就

虽然美航宇局的航天飞机一再推迟发射日期,而赛奥科尔公司研制的固体火箭助推器(SRB)仍取得了明显的进展。1980年2月第三台即最后一台鉴定发动机进行了静态试车。航天飞机初次飞行用的第一段发动机在9月26日运到肯尼迪空间中心。赛奥科尔公司已完成了第二次飞行用的发动机和喷管出口锥的生产工作,第三次飞行用的发动机将于80年底生产出来。     

氮化铝薄膜及复合体波谐振器

为了在超高频范围内对基模振荡器进行控制和运用滤波器,开展了对于小型体波谐振器的基本材料和器件特性的研究。本文报道了氮化铝(ALN)在构成复合谐振器几何形状和边缘支撑型晶片结构方面的性能。 ALN薄膜是在直流平板磁控管溅镀装置中,用中间电极溅射出来的AL和等离子气体中的N_2之间的等离子体反应生成的。一般溅镀条件是:溅镀压力=1×10~(-3)毛,空气含氮量=99.999％基片温度=200℃,直流功率-225瓦,溅镀率=1.2微米/小时。ALN薄膜的品质用扫描式电子显微镜(SEM)、X射线衍射法和奥格(Auger)电子分光镜进行鉴定。检测结果说明,溅镀的ALN薄膜具有严格的晶向结构,其C轴垂直于Si(硅)基片表面。对于由1.7微米ALN薄膜和8微米Si基片组成的谐振器,测出的基频串联谐振频率为328.53兆赫,基频并联谐振频率为328.61兆赫。这种规格谐振器的Q值约有7500,它在-20℃至+120℃范围内的实测温度系数约为-4×10~(-8)/℃。对于具有1.7微米ALN薄膜和6微米Si基片的谐振器,实测的温度系数是-6×10~(-6)/℃。这种规格谐振器的Q值约为5000,它的基频串联谐振频率是524.11兆赫,而基频并联谐振频率是524.45兆赫。应用微电子半导体加工技术,已经制成了边缘支撑型ALN晶片。晶片厚度为1.0至7微米,面积约为300平方微米。这种晶片是边缘支撑型的,这与以前报道的底膜支撑型薄膜是不相同的。厚度为6.5微米的典型ALN晶片在790兆赫附近产生基模谐振,耦合系数为10.3％。在-20℃至120℃范围内测得的温度系数可达到-20.5×10~(-6)/℃。目前,已按外延特性制造出具有水平C轴的氧化锌ZnO晶片。这种晶片显示出切变波谐振特性,这意味着晶片有很高的谐振Q和比较简单的模式结构。     

采用硅雪崩器件的1000V、300PS脉冲产生电路

把一个马氏(Marx)成形的雪崩晶体管串联电路和一个脉冲上升时间锐化二极管串连,将会在50Ω负载上产生一个幅度大于1000V、上升时间小于300ps 的脉冲。这个电路的触发延迟时间大约是7～10ns,晃动小于100ps。这个电路已被用于产生高至5 KHz 重复频率的脉冲。引言快速上升时间(纳秒)高压(千伏级)电脉冲在仪器快速瞬态测量中有很多用途。典型     

晶体谐振器—振荡器测试设备及测试结果

一、引言美国陆军电子技术及器件实验室(ETDL)的频率控制与计时分部的主要任务是要提高晶体谐振器与振荡器工艺水平,以满足军队用户的要求。第二个任务是向计划管理人员、系统设计人员提供谘询并维持晶体谐振器与振荡器的军用技术指标(也就是MIL-C-3098和MIL-0-55310)。这些任务要求对晶体谐振器和振荡器的工艺水平有详细而实际的了解。本文的目的是概述本实验室的技术力量,介绍一些研究结果,并在需要时向国防部所属用户提供晶体振荡器的测试、选择、技术指标和研制方面的帮助。     

怎样减小振动对SC切石英晶体振荡器的影响

要给现代化通讯、导航及雷达系统提供必要的频谱纯度,就必须减小石英谐振器的加速灵敏度(γ),例如从γ=10~(-10)/g 减小到γ=10~(-12)/g。为了实现这一目的,当前正在研究几种(仅与谐振器有关的)无源法。专门设计的单谐振器和双谐振器是无源法应用的两个实例。应用电子线路的有源法已经进行了研究,它能进一步使振动影响减到1/50。然而,用来实现这种方法的变容二极管的非线性限制了可能达到的最终减小量。本文介绍一种可供使用的有源法。这种方法的原理是应用 SC 切晶体的线性电压～频率特性,而要点在于把相位适当的振动模拟信号电压直接加在晶体电极上。用几块不同的SC 切晶体所做的一系列试验都确认了这种有源法的效果。把晶体振荡器略加修改,是为了加入补偿电压,而不会改变振荡器的电路原理。补偿测试范围:加速度1至14g,振动频率50至500Hz;补偿电压大小取决于γ的初值,可从-20至+20V(峰-峰值)。初步实验结果表明,在不连续的频率上γ值几乎能降低三个数量级,在50到500Hz 连续频率范围能降低一个数量级。     

The Suess-Urey mission (return of solar matter to Earth)

The Suess-Urey (S-U) mission has been proposed as a NASA Discovery mission to return samples of matter from the Sun to the Earth for isotopic and chemical analyses in terrestrial laboratories to provide a major improvement in our knowledge of the average chemical and isotopic composition of the solar system. The S-U spacecraft and sample return capsule will be placed in a halo orbit around the L1 Sun-Earth libration point for two years to collect solar wind ions which implant into large passive collectors made of ultra-pure materials. Constant Spacecraft-Sun-Earth geometries enable simple spin stabilized attitude control, simple passive thermal control, and a fixed medium gain antenna. Low data requirements and the safety of a Sun-pointed spinner, result in extremely low mission operations costs.     

CELSS nutrition system utilizing snails

At the 40th IAF Congress in Malaga, a nutrition system for a lunar base CELSS was presented. A lunar base with a total of eight crew members was envisaged. In this paper, four species of plants--rice, soybean, lettuce and strawberry--were introduced to the system. These plants were sufficient to satisfy fundamental nutritional needs of the crew members. The supply of nutrition from plants and the human nutritional requirements could almost be balanced. Our study revealed that the necessary plant cultivation area per crew member would be nearly 40 m3 in the lunar base. The sources of nutrition considered in the study were energy, sugar, fat, amino acids, inorganic salt and vitamins; however, calcium, vitamin B2, vitamin A and sodium were found to be lacking. Therefore, a subsystem to supply these elements is of considerable value. In this paper, we report on a study for breeding snails and utilizing meat as food. Nutrients supplied from snails are shown to compensate for the above mentioned lacking elements. We evaluate the snail breeder and the associated food supply system as a subsystem of closed ecological life support system.     

Leg venous hemodynamics and leg volumes during a 42 day -6 degrees head-down bedrest

Seven healthy subjects were submitted to a 42-day head down bedrest, where leg venous compliance (venous distensibity index VDI) and leg volumes were assessed by mercury strain gauge plethysmography with venous occlusion and optoelectronic plethysmography, respectively. Plethysmographic and volometric measurements were made, before, during (at days 1, 4, 7, 14, 21, 26, 34 and 41), and after bedrest (days 1, 4, 7, 11 and 30 of the recovery period). Results showed a continuous decrease in leg volumes throughout bedrest, when VDI increased until day 26 of bedrest, and then decreased afterwards. The recovery period was characterized by a rapid return of VDI to prebedrest levels while leg volumes progressively normalised. These results showed that leg venous compliance changes are not always dependant upon skeletal muscle changes, and that factors other than size of muscle compartment are able to determine increases in leg venous compliance during long-term bedrest.     

Spatial orientation during locomotion [correction of locomation] following space flight

To investigate changes in spatial orientation ability and walking performance following space flight, 7 astronaut subjects were asked pre- and post-flight to perform a goal directed locomotion paradigm which consisted of walking a triangular path with and without vision. This new paradigm, involving inputs from different sensory systems, allows quantification of several critical parameters, like orientation performance, walking velocities and postural stability, in a natural walking task. The paper presented here mainly focusses on spatial orientation performance quantified by the errors in walking the previously seen path without vision. Errors in length and reaching the corners did not change significantly from pre- to post-flight, while absolute angular errors slightly increased post-flight. The significant decrease in walking velocity and a change in head-trunk coordination while walking around the corners of the path observed post-flight may suggest that during re-adaptation to gravity the mechanisms which are necessary to perform the task have to be re-accomplished.     

Influence of graviceptives cues at different level of visual information processing: the effect of prolonged weightlessness

We evaluated the influence of prolonged weightlessness on the performance of visual tasks in the course of the Russian-French missions ANTARES, Post-ANTARES and ALTAIR aboard the MIR station. Eight cosmonauts were subjects in two experiments executed pre-flight, in-flight and post-flight sessions.

In the first experiment, cosmonauts performed a task of symmetry detection in 2-D polygons. The results indicate that this detection is locked in a head retinal reference frame rather than in an environmentally defined one as meridional orientations of symmetry axis (vertical and horizontal) elicited faster response times than oblique ones. However, in weightlessness the saliency of a retinally vertical axis of symmetry is no longer significantly different from an horizontal axis. In the second experiment, cosmonauts performed a mental rotation task in which they judged whether two 3-D objects presented in different orientations were identical. Performance on this task is basically identical in weightlessness and normal gravity.