Response: Against manned space flight programs

Richard Rovetto has done a good job of assembling various arguments that are commonly advanced for a program of manned space flight. I will take them up one by one, and explain why I find them all unconvincing.     

微小卫星的现状及其在空间攻防中的应用

微小卫星正以其独特的优势在越来越多的领域发挥重要作用.主要介绍了现代小卫星的概念、分类和特点,并以美国和欧空局为例分析了微小卫星的发展现状,最后详细介绍了微小卫星在空间攻防中的应用前景.     

INVESTIGATION OF TIGHTLY COUPLED SINS/GPS INTEGRATION MIDCOURSE GUIDANCE FOR AIR-TO-AIR MISSILES

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三维体视投影图画法基础

主要介绍三维体视投影图的画法，指出作图的基本规律和图形的表现方法。     

基于空间机械臂的柔顺抓捕技术研究综述

空间机械臂是广泛应用于空间探索与实验的重要机电设备,柔顺抓捕技术为其执行主要任务的基础。空间机械臂柔顺抓捕技术主要分为结构设计与控制方法两个方面。首先介绍了目前已成功应用的空间机械臂末端执行器系统,分析了其结构与抓捕原理特点,说明了相应优势与不足,并给出结构优化的合理建议。然后介绍柔顺抓捕的控制方法在空间任务以及部分非空间任务中的成功应用,比较了其特性与优劣,归纳出优化的空间机械臂柔顺抓捕控制策略。本研究期望为空间机械臂柔顺抓捕技术的研究提供思路。     

基于交叉验证的捷联惯导制导工具误差分离方法

在捷联惯导制导工具误差分离过程中引入交叉验证检验制导工具误差分离精度,并基于均方误差准则建立量化检验指标.首先建立简化的制导工具误差分离模型,并将数据划分成训练集和检验集;然后利用训练集进行制导工具误差分离;最后利用检验集和量化检验指标对分离效果进行检验.数学仿真表明,提出的误差分离模型正确可靠,精度较高,交叉验证能够对分离效果进行有效检验.     

German SIMBOX on Chinese mission Shenzhou-8: Europe's first bilateral cooperation utilizing China's Shenzhou programme

On November 1, 2011, at 05:58 local time, the Chinese spaceship Shenzhou-8 was launched for a 17-day mission with a Long March rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Mongolia desert. On board was the German SIMBOX (Science in Microgravity Box) experimental facility containing 17 bio-medical experiments, which were conducted by German researchers together with their Chinese colleagues. It was the first time that China cooperated with a European nation in the scientific utilization of Shenzhou – the core element of China's human spaceflight programme.     

邻近空间无线通信连接技术的探讨

文章研究了CCSDSPSLP（空间数据系统咨询委员会邻近空间链路协议）的连接技术,从连接帧格式、指令内容、状态逻辑、参数配置等方面进行了深入分析,重点研究了物理层、编码与同步子层的底层功能及接口细节,并从实现的角度讨论了三种优化连接的方法流程,为基于PSLP的设备研制做出了具备应用价值的技术探索.     

Private property rights on asteroid resources: Assessing the legality of the ASTEROIDS Act

On June 10, 2014, a bill proposing to establish and protect (private) property rights on asteroid resources was introduced in the US House of Representatives.Regardless of its effective chances to become law, the presentation of the Bill raises numerous legal questions, particularly concerning the status of extraterrestrial natural resources and the consistency of what the Bill suggests with international space law.The purpose of the present viewpoint is to address and clarify the above questions.     

Design and operation of an anaerobic digester for waste management and fuel generation during long term lunar mission

Waste treatment and management for manned long term exploratory missions to moon will be a challenge due to longer mission duration. The present study investigated appropriate digester technologies that could be used on the base. The effect of stirring, operation temperature, organic loading rate and reactor design on the methane production rate and methane yield was studied. For the same duration of digestion, the unmixed digester produced 20–50% more methane than mixed system. Two-stage design which separated the soluble components from the solids and treated them separately had more rapid kinetics than one stage system, producing the target methane potential in one-half the retention time than the one stage system. The two stage system degraded 6% more solids than the single stage system. The two stage design formed the basis of a prototype digester sized for a four-person crew during one year exploratory lunar mission.