Excavation of artificial caverns inside asteroids by leveraging rotational self-energy

Future space ventures will likely require exploitation of near-Earth asteroid resources. Moreover, it can be envisaged that asteroids may host habitats in their interiors. In fact, a cavern inside an asteroid would be a natural radiation shield against cosmic radiation and may also serve as a confined environment for storage of mined material such as water ice or other processed volatiles such as propellants. To this end, this paper proposes to leverage the asteroid rotational self-energy to remove material from the asteroid interiors and create a spherical cavern, by means of the orbital siphon concept. The siphon is a chain of tether-connected payload masses (the asteroid material), which exploits the rotation of the asteroid for the delivery of mass from the asteroid to escape. Under certain conditions the siphon can be initiated to ensure self-sustained flow of mass from the asteroid to escape. A net orbital siphon effect is generated by connecting new payloads at the bottom of the chain while releasing the upper payloads. Key parameters are discussed, such as the required siphon dimension and the maximum size of the internal cavity that can be excavated, as a function of the asteroid rotational period. Moreover, assuming elastic material behaviour, a closed-form expression for the stress tensor is found and a failure criterion is used to identify regions in the asteroid interiors subjected to the larger stresses. It is shown that the conditions for failure are relaxed as the radius of the internal void increases.     

轨控大干扰下的系统角动量管理

摘要： 针对利用角动量交换装置系统实现轨控期间姿态维持的情况，研究当轨控推力器存在大力矩扰动时系统角动量管理方法.结合对地运行航天器轨道运动特性，分析轨控干扰力矩的积累角动量变化规律；考虑角动量管理装置系统的角动量存贮容量，基于角动量积累规律提出了一种结合偏置角动量建立与对称分布轨控位置选择的系统角动量管理方法，实现了对称轨控位置积累角动量互相抵消的自平衡效果，极大程度地提高轨控效率且避免系统角动量饱和现象.所提出的方法适用于喷气欠驱动控制系统，方法的有效性通过了数学仿真验证及在轨型号应用.     

Orbital stability close to asteroid 624 Hektor using the polyhedral model

We investigate the orbital stability close to the unique L4-point Jupiter binary Trojan asteroid 624 Hektor. The gravitational potential of 624 Hektor is calculated using the polyhedron model with observational data of 2038 faces and 1021 vertexes. Previous studies have presented three different density values for 624 Hektor. The equilibrium points in the gravitational potential of 624 Hektor with different density values have been studied in detail. There are five equilibrium points in the gravitational potential of 624 Hektor no matter the density value. The positions, Jacobian, eigenvalues, topological cases, stability, as well as the Hessian matrix of the equilibrium points are investigated. For the three different density values the number, topological cases, and the stability of the equilibrium points with different density values are the same. However, the positions of the equilibrium points vary with the density value of the asteroid 624 Hektor. The outer equilibrium points move away from the asteroid’s mass center when the density increases, and the inner equilibrium point moves close to the asteroid’s mass center when the density increases. There exist unstable periodic orbits near the surface of 624 Hektor. We calculated an orbit near the primary’s equatorial plane of this binary Trojan asteroid; the results indicate that the orbit remains stable after 28.8375?d.     

小升阻比载人飞船返回舱的外形设计

载人飞船返回舱的外形设计要满足稳定性、操纵性、配平升阻比、最大过载、最大热流、最大总加热量、机动能力、着陆精度和容积系数等要求。小升阻比返回舱的形状以球冠倒锥形为最优。文中简要地介绍了返回舱外形的选择方法，对球冠钝度、倒锥角、大头拐角相对曲率半径、长细比和最大横截面直径等主要参数的选择作了研究，得出了定性与定量的分析结果。     

航天器编队飞行及其关键技术的开发

简要论述由分布式航天器系统构成的空间编队飞行的概念 ,扼要介绍 NASA为未来航天器编队飞行项目开发的几项关键技术 ,着重阐明基于 GPS的分散式编队飞行控制和相对导航技术能充当未来多星编队飞行任务的导航系统 ,从而使未来的空间科学研究发生深刻变化     

低地球轨道环境原子氧对航天器表面材料聚酰亚胺作用的数值模拟

在建立数学物理模型的基础上，对氏地球轨道环境和地面实验环境下，有无保护层的聚酰亚胺所受原子氧冲蚀作用进行了进行了成功的数值模拟，获得了具有工程应用价值的数值计算结果，并讨论了数学物理模型中各参数对基蚀曲线形状的影响。从数值模拟结果和美国太空实验结果的比较可以看出，本文数据模拟的结果是正确的。该项工作对航天器的设计具有重要指导意义。     

卫星脉冲推力最优逃逸返回轨迹的非线性规划

重点研究了卫星通过轨道机动逃避碰撞、拦截并经一段时间后返回原轨道的逃逸方式。利用非线性规划理论建立了脉冲推力能量最省的逃逸轨迹规划模型，并考虑非球形摄动的影响对模型进行了修正。通过仿真验证了模型的正确性及求解的可行性，并分析了非球形摄动因素对逃逸过程的影响。     

深空探测器热控系统设计方法研究

针对国外深空探测器热控系统设计方法进行了调研和综述,并在此基础上提出了深空探测器的热控系统设计特点,为我国深空探测器热控系统的设计提供参考。     

三阶时变离散系统的一致渐近稳定性

特征建模的方法为智能控制器设计和一些高阶对象进行低阶控制器设计提供了理论依据，特别是为大型空间挠性航天器的控制提供了一种有效的途径。但是，对于阶次和参数未知的高阶线性定常系统基于特征模型设计的自适应控制方案，其稳定性问题尚未完全解决，这一问题实际上归结为时变离散系统的稳定性问题。对于位置保持或位置跟踪控制，基于特征模型设计的自适应控制方案其稳定性问题即为三阶时变离散系统的稳定性问题，利用Lyapunov直接方法定量地给出了三阶线性时变离散系统和一类非线性三阶时变离散系统一致渐近稳定的判据，从而为基于特征建模设计适当的控制律以满足稳定性的要求提供了理论依据。