Families of halo orbits in the elliptic restricted three-body problem for a solar sail with reflectivity control devices

Solar sail halo orbits designed in the Sun-Earth circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP) provide inefficient reference orbits for station-keeping since the disturbance due to the eccentricity of the Earth’s orbit has to be compensated for. This paper presents a strategy to compute families of halo orbits around the collinear artificial equilibrium points in the Sun-Earth elliptic restricted three-body problem (ER3BP) for a solar sail with reflectivity control devices (RCDs). In this non-autonomous model, periodic halo orbits only exist when their periods are equal to integer multiples of one year. Here multi-revolution halo orbits with periods equal to integer multiples of one year are constructed in the CR3BP and then used as seeds to numerically continue the halo orbits in the ER3BP. The linear stability of the orbits is analyzed which shows that the in-plane motion is unstable while the out-of-plane motion is neutrally stable and a bifurcation is identified. Finally, station-keeping is performed which shows that a reference orbit designed in the ER3BP is significantly more efficient than that designed in the CR3BP, while the addition of RCDs improve station-keeping performance and robustness to uncertainty in the sail lightness number.     

A simple control law for reducing the effective characteristic acceleration of a solar sail

The direction and magnitude of a solar sail acceleration are strongly related. For this reason, once the characteristic acceleration has been fixed, it is not possible to modulate the acceleration in a particular direction. In this work, a semi-analytical switching control law is derived, enabling a solar sail to emulate a smaller effective characteristic acceleration (without changes in geometry or optical properties); by periodically changing the pitch (cone) angle of the sail, in average over time, the acceleration produced by the sail matches exactly (in both direction and magnitude) that of a “smaller” sail. The range in which this is possible is determined, and the limitations on this range due to the size difference is computed. The method is validated on optimal Earth-Mars trajectories.     

On the station keeping of a solar sail in the elliptic Sun–Earth system

In this work we focus on the dynamics of a solar sail in the Sun–Earth Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem with solar radiation pressure. The considered situation is the motion of a sail close to the L₁ point, but displacing the equilibrium point with the sail so that it is possible to have continuous communication with the Earth. In previous works we derived a station keeping strategy for this situation but using the Circular RTBP as a model.     

Results of solar observations by the CORONAS-F payload

The CORONAS-F mission experiments and results have been reviewed. The observations with the DIFOS multi-channel photometer in a broad spectral range from 350 to 1500 nm have revealed the dependence of the relative amplitudes of p-modes of the global solar oscillations on the wavelength that agrees perfectly well with the earlier data obtained in a narrower spectral ranges. The SPIRIT EUV observations have enabled the study of various manifestations of solar activity and high-temperature events on the Sun. The data from the X-ray spectrometer RESIK, gamma spectrometer HELICON, flare spectrometer IRIS, amplitude–temporal spectrometer AVS-F, and X-ray spectrometer RPS-1 have been used to analyze the X- and gamma-ray emission from solar flares and for diagnostics of the flaring plasma. The absolute and relative content of various elements (such as potassium, argon, and sulfur) of solar plasma in flares has been determined for the first time with the X-ray spectrometer RESIK. The Solar Cosmic Ray Complex monitored the solar flare effects in the Earth’s environment. The UV emission variations recorded during solar flares in the vicinity of the 120-nm wavelength have been analyzed and the amplitude of relative variations has been determined.     

超高速撞击下PTFE/Al含能材料薄板的载荷特性分析

不同于传统惰性材料的空间碎片防护结构,含能材料防护结构在超高速撞击下的冲击起爆特性是其防护能力得以提高的根本原因。PTFE/Al含能材料防护结构的冲击起爆特性改变了弹丸强冲击载荷下的破碎机制,弹丸内部的冲击压力对于分析含能材料在超高速撞击下的防护机理具有重要意义。对超高速撞击试验中回收的PTFE/Al防护结构后板进行损伤特性分析,获得了对应速度条件下弹丸的破碎特性。基于一维冲击波理论,分析PTFE/Al靶板在超高速撞击条件下的冲击响应过程,结合考虑化学反应效率的热化学反应模型,获得了弹丸在碰撞与爆炸联合作用下的载荷特性,通过与试验结果对比验证,获得该材料完全反应的临界撞击速度约为1800 m/s,弹丸的临界破碎速度为2875 m/s,小于铝防护结构中对应的临界破碎速度。给出了弹丸在PTFE/Al、铝两种防护结构中产生相同冲击压力时对应的临界速度,分别为弹道段的800 m/s和破碎段的3580 m/s。     

Sunspot activity and cosmic ray modulation at 1 a.u. for 1900–2013

The descent of sunspot cycle 23 to an unprecedented minimum of long duration in 2006–2009 led to a prolonged galactic cosmic ray (GCR) recovery to the highest level observed in the instrumental era for a variety of energetic charged particle species on Earth, over a wide range of rigidities. The remarkable GCR increase measured by several ground-based, balloon-borne, and detectors on a satellite is described and discussed. It is accompanied by a decrease in solar wind velocity and interplanetary magnetic field at 1 a.u., reaching the lowest values since measurements of the solar wind began in October 1963; the solar polar field strength (μT) measured at the Wilcox Solar Observatory (WSO) is also significantly reduced compared to prior cycles since the start of the program in 1976, the polar field in the northern hemisphere reversed in June 2012 and again in February 2014, that in the southern hemisphere reversed in July 2013. If updates of WSO data confirm the second reversal in northern solar hemisphere, it would pose a serious challenge to the Dynamo Theory. The long-term change in solar behavior may have begun in 1992, perhaps earlier. The physical underpinnings of these solar changes need to be understood and their effect on GCR modulation processes clarified. The study discusses the recent phenomena in the context of GCR modulation since 1900. These happenings affected our empirical predictions for the key parameters for the next two sunspot cycles (they may be progressively less active than sunspot cycle 24) but it enhanced support for our prediction that solar activity is descending into a Dalton-like grand minimum in the middle of the twentyfirst century, reducing the frequency of the coronal mass ejections; they determine the space weather affecting the quality of life on Earth, radiation dose for hardware and human activities in space as well as the frequency of large Forbush decreases at 1 a.u.     

永磁同步电机驱动太阳翼扰动力矩建模与仿真

建立太阳翼驱动机构(SADA)永磁同步电机的电磁方程，并利用固定界面模态综合法建立SADA驱动太阳翼耦合系统的振动方程；设计模拟柔性负载，对SADA驱动该柔性负载的扰振力矩进行仿真分析。结果表明，SADA驱动柔性负载运行过程中所产生扰振力矩主要由两个原因引起：1)电流噪声引起的力矩波动；2)控制参数选取不当引起的转角波动。     

Effects on winter circulation of short and long term solar wind changes

Indices of the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation show correlations on the day-to-day timescale with the solar wind speed (SWS). Minima in the indices were found on days of SWS minima during years of high stratospheric aerosol loading. The spatial distribution of surface pressure changes during 1963–2011 with day-to-day changes in SWS shows a pattern resembling the NAO. Such a pattern was noted for year-to-year variations by Boberg and Lundstedt (2002), who compared NAO variations with the geo-effective solar wind electric field (the monthly average SWS multiplied by the average southward component, i.e., negative Bz component, of the interplanetary magnetic field). The spatial distribution of the correlations of geopotential height changes in the troposphere and stratosphere with the SWS; the geo-effective electric field (SWS∗Bz); and the solar 10.7 cm flux suggests that solar wind inputs connected to the troposphere via the global electric circuit, together with solar ultraviolet irradiance acting on the stratosphere, affect regional atmospheric dynamics.     

高能电子辐照下介质-导体相间结构深层充电特性研究

为研究影响介质-导体相间结构深层充电特性的内在因素,设计了不同构型的试验样品,利用90Sr放射源模拟空间高能电子环境对样品进行深层充电辐照试验,测量了充电电位的差异。并借助深层充电三维仿真软件计算介质-导体相间结构在不同几何构型情况下的深层充电电位、电场分布。试验和仿真结果表明,介质最高表面电位以及介质内部最大电场均与介质宽度和高度呈正相关。其他条件不变时,介质越宽,或越高于导体表面,发生放电的风险就越高。在介质与导体侧面存在微小缝隙情况下,介质内最大电场显著增强,易发生内部击穿。而在介质与导体之间的真空间隙内,电场很容易超过击穿阈值,放电风险很大。航天工程应用中为降低此种结构深层充放电的风险,在满足绝缘性能及其他要求的前提下应尽量减小介质的宽度,降低介质与导体间的高度差,并确保介质与导体侧面接触良好。