基于大幅值Lyapunov轨道的地月转移轨道设计研究

基于平面圆形限制性三体问题模型,利用与绕月轨道相切的大幅值Lyapunov周期轨道,提出了一种新的地月转移轨道设计方法。根据Poincaré截面与限制性三体问题动力学系统对称性计算得到的大幅值Lyapunov轨道,通过与绕月轨道拼接,将地月转移问题转化为地球到大幅值Lyapunov轨道的转移问题。为保证探测器能够从近地轨道（LEO）切向逃逸到达大幅值Lyapunov轨道,通过计算其稳定流形,采用最近点作为Poincaré截面的终止条件求解探测器的初始状态,并根据初始状态完成地月轨道的设计。仿真结果表明,该地月转移策略相比于Hohmann转移,在同样只需要两次速度增量的前提下,约节约100 m/s的速度增量,该研究为地月转移轨道的设计提供了一种新思路。     

严格回归轨道自动生成算法及实现

近地太阳同步轨道卫星由平时轨道快速、精确机动至严格回归轨道是实现特定区域周期性重访的必要前提。为提高区域重访的快速响应能力,提出了一种严格回归轨道自动生成算法。首先根据重访区域的交点周期及重访周期要求,利用解析法快速生成初始严格回归轨道;然后基于太阳同步轨道特性并利用数值法进行多次寻优生成严格回归轨道,针对轨控时间、燃料消耗、偏心率等约束条件,给出了多脉冲轨控策略的具体实现;最后构建了轨道衰减的解析表达式,推导出严格回归轨道的控制窗口。结果表明:在国内可见弧度实施5天共5次轨道控制,卫星由太阳同步轨道机动至1天15圈的日回归轨道,区域重访周期约23h 59m 50s,燃料消耗59.9kg;在轨迹漂移量为5km的要求下,在标称轨道半长轴的基础上增加110.778m,轨迹网保持周期由15天延长至一个月以上,满足严格回归轨道重访要求。     

地月系低能转移轨道设计

分析了不同转移轨道间的性能指标,以黄道面与白道面交线作为庞加莱截面实现不同系统轨道的拼接,利用其中耗能最小的日地系稳定流形和地月系的不稳定流形设计了一条低能耗转移轨道.最后对不同轨 道进行了能量分析和对比,优化了国内提出的低能探月轨道.仿真结果表明,文中方法比直接通过霍曼转移节约21.1%的能量,对探月工程的轨道设计具...     

面向载人月球探测的三体周期轨道应用方案分析

为适应未来地月空间飞行器顶层轨道选择与窗口、测控等总体方案论证,对NRHO轨道、L2平动点Halo轨道、DRO轨道等不同三体周期轨道在载人月球探测中的应用进行研究分析,从地月空间转移任务速度增量与飞行时间需求、测控通信、月面可达性、登月窗口、深空拓展任务可行性等方面定量综合评估三体周期轨道的优劣性,对比确定三体周期轨道在载人月球探测不同任务中的适用性。结果表明：3种类型轨道支持登月任务的主要差异在于任务可行性与月球探测区域的选择。研究结果对未来登月飞行器近月空间部署以及轨道方案分析具有一定的参考意义。     

关于地球转移轨道碎片的轨道寿命问题

低轨卫星的轨道寿命主要取决于大气的耗散作用,其轨道在不断变小(即高度降低)变圆的状态下进入地球稠密大气层中陨落。但地球转移轨道(GTO)碎片的运行轨道是一个近地点高度为200km,远地点高度达36000km的大偏心率(e=0.73)椭圆轨道,其轨道寿命主要由第三体(日、月)引力摄动所决定,而且还与其轨道的初始状态有密切关系。本文将根据地球卫星轨道变化规律进行理论分析,阐明力学机制,并给出相应的数值验证。     

地月系L1点的月球借力间接转移轨道设计

针对地月系L1点（LL1）的轨道转移问题,在平面圆型限制性三体问题模型下,提出了利用月球借力的间接转移设计方法.转移设计分为地月转移轨道段和月球至LL1流形段.首先,通过改变LL1点初始机动速度,逆向积分LL1点的拟流形,以寻找初始速度、月心会合坐标系下的轨道高度和相位角这三者之间的关系,确定月球—LL1流形段微分改正的初始条件.然后,借助地月系不同转移时间的霍曼转移轨道所对应的近月点高度和相位角的关系,获得使2段转移在近月点相拼接的地月转移轨道段.这种设计方法给出了一系列LL1点间接转移轨道,将此设计结果与其他文献中的转移设计方法进行比较,此间接转移轨道比低能量转移轨道节省时间,比直接转移轨道节约能量.     

载人月球探测轨道设计的挑战与技术发展趋势

轨道设计是载人月球探测工程中的一个重要问题,直接影响工程实施的效果、甚至成败。本文概述了载人月球探测工程中涉及的飞行轨道,指出了轨道设计所面临的三方面挑战,即飞行轨道方案、轨道设计效率、任务全局最优化的挑战;简要介绍了国内外载人月球探测轨道设计的研究进展;提出了当前载人月球探测轨道设计需要重点突破的几个关键技术问题,包括一体化轨道设计与优化、应急任务轨道设计、地月空间任务高鲁棒性轨道设计、月球轨道空间站的轨道设计和地月空间轨道通用设计软件等问题。     

载人登月周期重访轨道保持策略设计

针对高精度星历动力学模型下载人登月周期重访轨道(也称地月循环轨道)发散问题,设计了一种轨道保持控制策略。提出一种高精度星历动力学模型下的循环轨道初值设计方法,分析了日月中心引力、地球J2项等摄动力对轨道快速发散作用,设计了一种特殊点四脉冲周期重访轨道保持策略。高精度动力学数值仿真实验表明,该种轨道保持策略控制频率低、速度增量消耗小,控制精度能够满足任务需求,达到预期设计目标。     

月地转移轨道精确轨道设计

以基于Lambert算法的快速轨道设计结果为初值,开展精确轨道设计研究.通过对月地返回飞行阶段的摄动项和量级分析,建立了月地转移轨道的动力学方程,提出了一种双向嵌套循环搜索算法,采用该算法求解同时满足两端约束条件的精确月地转移轨道.该算法以出月球影响球的时刻和位置、速度为中间变量,一方面采用前向数值积分和微分改正法搜索满足地球再入端的轨道,另一方面采用后向数值积分并进行倾角和近月距修正得到满足月球端的轨道,通过这种双向嵌套循环,使得两段轨道在月球影响球边界处的位置和速度连续,从而获得一条完整的满足两端约束条件的月地转移精确轨道.最后以2017年1月26日出月球影响球作为返回窗口,给出了具体的设计算例,并通过STK软件仿真验证了程序的设计结果.     

航天器多普勒测速平均误差的分析与修正

对航天器多普勒测速平均误差进行了分析,详细推导了圆轨道和椭圆轨道时该误差的计算公式,计算了不同采样周期和轨道高度时的误差大小。经过分析指出,该项误差对于高轨航天器影响较小,对于低轨航天器可以通过缩短采样周期或利用3个点或多个点的连续测量数据进行修正。     

Investigating suitable orbits for the Swarm constellation mission – The frozen orbit

This paper proposes a suitable orbit design for the lower pair of ESA's Swarm constellation mission, flying side-by-side in near-polar and circular orbits with a separation of only 1.4° at ascending node. Both orbits are suggested to be frozen orbits to minimize the evolution, and an along-track separation strategy is applied to avoid collision risk. The characteristics of the proposed orbit type are examined through numerical techniques including high-fidelity perturbation models. The prime change from the initial configuration is an along-track separation. The perturbations causing the along-track drift are analyzed by switching on/off certain perturbations. The results indicate that the tesseral harmonics and the atmospheric drag yield dominant effects. The atmospheric drag effect shows a dependence on the local time of the ascending node. From two months of orbit propagation for the altitude 300 km the maximum along-track drift we obtain is about 80 km, which is still within the measurement requirement range. Several maneuver strategies for maintaining the proposed orbit design are suggested. The results analyzed for the proposed orbit design show that collision risk can be avoided by along-track separation within the frozen orbit design. Consequently, this combination is considered as a suitable approach for Swarm's lower pair.     

Autonomous mission reconstruction during the ascending flight of launch vehicles under typical propulsion system failures

In recent years, Chinese Long March(LM) launchers have experienced several launch failures, most of which occurred in their propulsion systems, and this paper studies Autonomous Mission Reconstruction(AMRC) technology to alleviate losses due to these failures. The status of the techniques related to AMRC, including trajectory and mission planning, guidance methods,and fault tolerant technologies, are reviewed, and their features are compared, which reflect the challenges faced by AMRC technology...     

Orbits for radiatively cooled space telescopes

This paper first outlines the assumed mission requirements for a radiatively cooled space telescope such as EDISON. A summary of relevant characteristics (payload, operating orbit, launcher, lifetime, etc.) for current and proposed cooled telescope missions is then given. This summary includes cryogenic and radiatively cooled missions since in both cases the reduction of heat input to the telescope aperture is a dominant factor in the orbit choice. These missions span the entire range of possibilities from low earth circular, through higher elliptical and circular orbits out to deep space locations such as the Sun-Earth (S-E) libration points and the lunar surface.A full listing of the factors affecting mission selection is then given. The most important points are illustrated by reference to the orbits chosen for ISO, FIRST and SIRTF and those recommended in recent studies of EDISON. Launcher capabilities for direct insertion and the onboard propellant for large velocity changes associated with orbit raising are major constraints in achieving the large payload mass to high orbit which EDISON mission requires. Although it is fairly demanding in launch/boost energy, an orbit about the L2 S-E libration point offers important advantages for a radiatively cooled infrared telescope. Further studies of this orbit and the associated aspects of service module and payload design for the L2 location of EDISON are recommended.     

快速响应侦察的测控通信与地面站布设研究

快速响应侦察是空间快速响应技术的一个重要应用,而合理布设地面站以保障侦察卫星的发射测控和快速数据回收是侦察任务顺利完成的基础。通过分析近地快速覆盖轨道和近地重复覆盖轨道的对地覆盖特性,针对发射测控和快速数据回收提出了地面站的布设原则,结合我国领土特点给出了这2类轨道的地面站布设方案,并求解了该方案所能提供的发射测控弧段长度和侦察数据返回时间。分析表明,在我国境内布设地面站以保障快速响应侦察卫星的发射测控和快速数据回收是可行的,其数据返回时间小于1个轨道周期。     

Orbit Design for the THEMIS Mission

THEMIS, NASA’s fifth Medium Class Explorer (MIDEX) mission will monitor the onset and macro-scale evolution of magnetospheric substorms. It is a fleet of 5 small satellites (probes) measuring in situ the magnetospheric particles and fields while a network of 20 ground based observatories (GBOs) monitor auroral brightening over Northern America. Three inner probes (～1 day period, 10 R_E apogee) monitor current disruption and two outer probes (～2 day and ～4 day period, 20 R_E and 30 R_E apogees respectively) monitor lobe flux dissipation. In order to time and localize substorm onsets, THEMIS utilizes Sun–Earth aligned conjunctions between the probes when the ground-based observatories are on the nightside. To maintain high recurrence of conjunctions the outer orbits have to be actively adjusted during each observation season. Orbit maintenance is required to rearrange the inner probes for dayside observations and also inject the probes into their science orbits after near-simultaneous release from a common launch vehicle. We present an overview of the orbit strategy, which is primarily driven by the scientific goals of the mission but also represents a compromise between the probe thermal constraints and fuel capabilities. We outline the process of orbit design, describe the mission profile and explain how mission requirements are targeted and evaluated. Mission-specific tools, based on high-fidelity orbit prediction and common magnetospheric models, are also presented. The planning results have been verified by in-flight data from launch through the end of the first primary science seasons and have been used for mission adjustments subject to the early scientific results from the coast phase and first tail season.     

一种有效提高超大偏心率轨道初轨确定精度的新方法

针对某型号航天器的运行轨道偏心率大、轨控结束后可用于初轨确定的测轨数据少的特点,提出了一种能有效提高超大偏心率短弧段初轨确定精度的新方法。该新方法将轨道改进的思想融入初轨计算方法中,使之既适用于各种偏心率轨道的初轨计算,也适用于各种偏心率轨道的长弧段、多圈、多站数据的轨道改进;解决了传统初轨确定方法超大偏心率轨道短弧段初轨确定误差偏大的问题。通过任务实测数据的检验,新方法适用于各种偏心率轨道,并且超大偏心率轨道的初轨确定精度明显优于传统方法。     

The Dawn Ion Propulsion System

Dawn??s ion propulsion system (IPS) is the most advanced propulsion system ever built for a deep-space mission. Aside from the Mars gravity assist it provides all of the post-launch ??V required for the mission including the heliocentric transfer to Vesta, orbit capture at Vesta, transfer to various Vesta science orbits, escape from Vesta, the heliocentric transfer to Ceres, orbit capture at Ceres, and transfer to the different Ceres science orbits. The ion propulsion system provides a total ??V of nearly 11 km/s, comparable to the ??V provided by the 3-stage launch vehicle, and a total impulse of 1.2×10⁷ N?s.     

Aiming at a 1-cm Orbit for Low Earth Orbiters: Reduced-Dynamic and Kinematic Precise Orbit Determination

The computation of high-accuracy orbits is a prerequisite for the success of Low Earth Orbiter (LEO) missions such as CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE. The mission objectives of these satellites cannot be reached without computing orbits with an accuracy at the few cm level. Such a level of accuracy might be achieved with the techniques of reduced-dynamic and kinematic precise orbit determination (POD) assuming continuous Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking (SST) by the Global Positioning System (GPS). Both techniques have reached a high level of maturity and have been successfully applied to missions in the past, for example to TOPEX/POSEIDON (T/P), leading to (sub-)decimeter orbit accuracy. New LEO gravity missions are (to be) equipped with advanced GPS receivers promising to provide very high quality SST observations thereby opening the possibility for computing cm-level accuracy orbits. The computation of orbits at this accuracy level does not only require high-quality GPS receivers, but also advanced and demanding observation preprocessing and correction algorithms. Moreover, sophisticated parameter estimation schemes need to be adapted and extended to allow the computation of such orbits. Finally, reliable methods need to be employed for assessing the orbit quality and providing feedback to the different processing steps in the orbit computation process. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

基于弹道逃逸和小推力捕获的地月转移轨道设计

针对地月空间货运任务和环月轨道空间设施建设任务,提出一种弹道逃逸和小推力捕获相结合的新型地月轨道转移模式,并建立了一整套该类型轨道设计方法。首先,在三体模型假设下分别建立地心弹道逃逸轨道和月心小推力捕获轨道的二维极坐标动力学模型。对于弹道逃逸轨道,将地心旋转系对准角和地月转移加速速度增量作为控制变量,提出初值估计解析公式,并应用序列二次规划算法进行快速求解。对于小推力捕获轨道,以月心距为参考量设置与弹道逃逸轨道的拼接点约束,提出能量匹配方法预估飞行时间,采用最优螺旋轨道的初始伴随状态解析式预估近月点伴随变量初值。基于混合法和轨道逆推思想,采用人工免疫算法进行小推力捕获轨道求解。仿真结果表明,基于弹道逃逸和小推力捕获的地月轨道转移方式大幅降低了近月制动燃料消耗,能快速穿越地球辐射带,且飞行时间适中;同时,提出的轨道设计方法能快速搜索到基于弹道逃逸和小推力捕获的地月转移轨道,验证了该方法的有效性。     

CLUSTER MISSION OPERATIONS

The Cluster ground segment design and mission operations concept have been defined according to the basic mission requirements, namely, to allow the transfer of the four spacecraft from the initial geostationary transfer orbit achieved at separation from the launcher into the final highly elliptical polar orbits, such that in the areas of scientific interest along their orbits, the four spacecraft will form a tetrahedral configuration with pre-defined separation distances, to be changed every six months during the mission. The Cluster mission operations will be carried out by ESA from its European Space Operations Centre; the task of merging the Principal Investigators' requests into coordinated, regular scientific mission planning inputs to ESOC will be undertaken by the Joint Science Operations Centre. The mission products will be distributed to the scientific community regularly in form of CD-ROMs. Principal Investigators will also have access to quick-look science, housekeeping telemetry and auxiliary data via an electronic network.