Scientific objectives and payloads of Tianwen-1, China’s first Mars exploration mission

This paper describes the scientific objectives and payloads of Tianwen-1, China’s first exploration mission to Mars. An orbiter, carrying a lander and a rover, lifted-off in July 2020 for a journey to Mars where it should arrive in February 2021. A suite of 13 scientific payloads, for in-situ and remote sensing, autonomously commanded by integrated payload controllers and mounted on the orbiter and the rover will study the magnetosphere and ionosphere of Mars and the relation with the solar wind, the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of the planet, looking at the topography, composition and structure and in particular for subsurface ice. The mission will also investigate Mars climate history. It is expected that Tianwen-1 will contribute significantly to advance our scientific knowledge of Mars.     

面向安全属性的软件组件可信依赖关系度量模型

随着软件的应用规模越来越大，软件系统一旦出现故障，很可能会造成人员伤亡或财产等重大损失，因此对软件可信性进行评估尤为重要.在安全攸关如航空航天等领域，作为可信关键属性之一的安全性影响着整个软件系统的可信评估.特别当一个组件受到安全攻击或缺陷出现时，可信性会下降，会影响到与它可信关联的组件可信性，从而影响到整个系统的可信性.遵循这一思路，设计了软件系统组件可信性发生改变后对其它组件可信性影响度量公式，进一步给出当一组件可信性发生变化，整个软件系统各组件可信性度量发生变化的度量模型.本文以某“航天电源管理设备”为例，证明了本文所建立的组件可信依赖关系度量模型的合理性和有效性.     

Early analysis of precise orbit and clock offset determination for the satellites of the global BeiDou-3 system

Eight new-generation BeiDou satellites (BeiDou-3) have been launched into Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), allowing for global coverage since March 2018, and they are equipped with new hydrogen atomic clocks and updated rubidium clocks. Firstly, we analyzed the signals for the carrier-to-noise-density ratio (C/N0) and pseudorange multipath (MP) by using international GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Monitoring and Assessment System (iGMAS) station data, and found that B1C has a lower C/N0, and B2a has the same level of C/N0 as the B1I and B3I signals. For pseudorange multipath, compared with the BeiDou-2 satellites, the obvious systematic variation of MP scatters related to the elevation angle is greatly improved for the BeiDou-3 and BeiDou-3e satellites signals. For the signals of the BeiDou-3 satellites, the order of the Root Mean Square (RMS) values of multipath and noise is B3I?<?B1I?<?B2a?<?B1C. Then, the comparison of the precise orbit determination and clock offset determination for the BeiDou-2, BeiDou-3, and BeiDou-3 experimental (BeiDou-3e) satellites was done by using 10 stations from iGMAS. The 3D precision of the 24?h orbit overlap is 24.55, 25.61, and 23.35?cm for the BeiDou-3, BeiDou-3e, and BeiDou-2 satellites, respectively. BeiDou-3 satellite has a comparable precision to that of the BeiDou-2 satellite. For the precision of clock offset estimation, the Standard Deviation (STD) of the BeiDou-3 MEO satellite is 0.350?ns, which is an improvement of 0.042?ns over that of the BeiDou-2 MEO satellite. The stabilities of the BeiDou-3 and BeiDou-3e onboard clocks are better than those of BeiDou-2 by factors of 2.84 and 1.61 at an averaging time of 1000 and 10,000?s, respectively.     

Ionospheric F2-Layer critical frequency retrieved from COSMIC radio occultation: A statistical comparison with measurements from a meridional ionosonde chain over Southeast Asia

In this paper, we compared the F2-Layer critical frequency (foF2) derived from FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC radio occultation (RO) and ionosondes at Chiang Mai, Chumphon and Kototabang during the years 2008–2015 to evaluate the performance of COSMIC RO over Southeast Asia region. The results show that the time development of foF2 values derived from COSMIC RO generally agrees well with those from ionosonde measurements. However, the differences between the foF2 derived from COSMIC RO and that derived from ionosonde observations display latitudinal dependence. COSMIC RO tends to underestimate foF2 at Chiang Mai and Kototabang, which is near to the north EIA crest and the south one, respectively, while a little overestimate foF2 at Chumphon, which is close to the geomagnetic equator. COSMIC RO agrees best with ionosonde at Chumphon and worst at Chiang Mai. At each ionosonde station, the quality of COSMIC RO data degrades with the increase of solar activity. In addition, at the station Chiang Mai and Kototabang, COSMIC RO performs better in summer than in equinox and winter. Furthermore, the differences in foF2 derived from COSMIC RO and that from ionosonde measurements vary with local time, i.e., the differences in foF2 are generally smaller at night and larger in noontime when equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) is well developed.     

Alfvén gravity waves in viscous solar plasma: Effect of the background flow

We study the Propagation and damping properties of Alfvén gravity waves in the presence of the vertical magnetic field in the viscous solar plasma under influence of the background flow by deriving a fourth order dispersion relation in terms of the Doppler shifted frequency. We derive the dispersion relation under WKB and Boussinesq approximation. We study the damping of Alfvén gravity waves for the wave frequencies less than and greater than the Brunt-Väisälä frequency. We find that the Brunt-Väisälä frequency divides the frequency ranges where the weakly or strongly damped oscillations occur. The background flow exhibits a strong effect on weakly damped oscillations and a weak effect on the strongly damped oscillations. We also notice that the damping of both the strong and weakly damped oscillations depend on the Brunt-Väisälä frequency and wave number. The effect of the background flow is also being governed by the Brunt-Väisälä frequency and wave number. We also study the properties of gravity wave mode after filtering the Alfvén wave mode by minimizing the magnetic field and noticed that the background flow shows a very strong effect on the gravity wave mode.     

系列化构型运载能力设计余量留取方法研究

调研了美国航天型号研制中设计余量留取的情况,结合系列化构型论证工作,对运载能力设计余量留取问题进行了初步研究,分析了关键参数对运载能力的影响,针对不同目标轨道、系列化构型的差异,探索得到了运载能力设计余量差异化留取的方法。     

航天器内带电效应的微弱电流监测技术

航天器的内带电效应是影响其在轨稳定运行的重要因素。内带电效应的电流监测可以直接获得一手的内带电效应监测数据,也可获得反映引起内带电效应的高能电子充电环境的状态。针对近地中高地球轨道环境,基于国外电流监测数据并考虑可能遭遇的高能电子暴环境,分析获得了内带电效应电流的测量范围10 fA～500 pA。针对未来中高轨及木星、火星等深空探测任务内带电监测需求,提出了一种微弱电流监测方案,实现了pA级微弱电流测量模块的实验室模拟标定。标定结果表明,在10 fA～500 pA范围内,输入电流与输出测量电压之间的线性度较好。     

基于过程教育论的高职院校军事课达标路径研究

过程教育理论强调教育的过程,没有"过程"就没有结果.长期以来,由于内外因素影响,致使高职院校军事课教学轻"过程",走"过场",成了顽瘴痼疾.要达到新《普通高等学校军事课教学大纲》及《普通高等学校军事课建设标准》的目标要求,必须深刻领会习近平总书记立德树人的思想精髓,按照"全过程育人"路径,发挥"过程评价"功能.通过"五抓",落细落小落实军事课教学"过程",达到军事课教学目标.