The need for a United Nations space policy

The international community is entering an era of shared global utilities from space and is increasingly reliant on space systems and activities that support a myriad of applications and utilities on Earth. A growing number of states are seeking to develop or extend their space capabilities. At the same time, a variety of non-state actors are also extending their involvement in space activities. The United Nations is the principal inter-governmental forum to deal with various space issues of global importance. Moreover, the United Nations system itself has become increasingly reliant on space systems for its day-to-day operations. In order for the United Nations to play its necessary role in the space arena, it will need to be supported by a space policy. A United Nations space policy would provide over-arching guidance on space activities for UN stakeholders in the space arena; it would inform UN participation in space activities and would promote improved coordination and cooperative governance of outer space activities. A world without a common UN space policy will not be able to respond to the challenges of the rapidly evolving space arena in the 21st century.     

临近空间立法问题研究及对技术发展的影响

当前学界关于临近空间的争议焦点主要集中在临近空间是否应当成为法律概念,以及临近空间是否应当成为法律上的独立空间两方面。随着在临近空间的利益冲突愈演愈烈,临近空间应上升成为独立的法律概念。在当前空天划界问题悬而未决的特殊背景下,宜认定其从属于空气空间,赋予领空主权。鉴于当前临近空间国际法规则尚处于空白阶段,应积极引领和推动临近空间国际法规则的制定,倡导设立临近空间的无害通过制度,同时加快发展临近空间技术,不断增强技术实力,为后续临近空间国际法规则制定增加博弈砝码。     

发展高可靠低成本进出空间技术，迎接太空经济时代（英文）

The worldwide space industry has entered a new space economy era. The question is how to develop in this new era? This paper tries to answer this question from two aspects: highly reliable and low-cost technology for access to space, and the cislunar economic zone. Firstly, the development requirement of the future space transportation system is discussed and the development path to enable high-reliability and a low cost of space transportation system is analyzed. Moreover, the concept of a routine space transportation system is proposed, upon which this paper gives some thoughts to the development of the cislunar economic zone thus embracing the new space economy era.     

空间目标态势行为与事件本体设计与构建

针对空间目标态势威胁响应和预警研究不完善的问题，为实现空间目标行为和事件的智能推理、实时响应和主动预警，保障航天活动和空间利益，提出面向行为与事件的空间目标态势本体模型(BEO-SO2)。基于基本形式本体(BFO)，构建空间目标态势行为与事件本体模型。在统一时空框架下建立空间目标关系模型，实现空间目标行为执行和事件发生过程的动态推演。以空间目标碰撞威胁为背景，设计对象实体等级体系和碰撞威胁行为与事件要素，建立碰撞威胁推理规则，基于空间目标态势行为与事件本体进行实现、验证与展示。结果表明,空间目标态势行为与事件本体能够实现空间目标碰撞威胁的等级推理与预警，并指导进一步的空间活动，为航天任务与空间活动提供有效保障。     

空间电子攻击的体系作战效用及发展对策

通过分析空间电子攻击在打击对象多、方式灵活多样,打击速度快、隐蔽突然,效果等同于火力打击、太空安全隐患小等方面的优势,得出了"空间电子攻击具有很大的发展潜力,是未来空间对抗力量发展的重心"的结论。通过分析空间电子攻击在遮态势感知耳目、断信息分发链路、破精确打击能力、实施战略威慑方面发挥体系作战效用的机理,论证了空间电子攻击的体系作战效用。通过分析还提出空间电子攻击力量的发展对策。     

空间信息对抗装备体系研究

空间信息对抗装备体系是完成空间信息对抗作战任务的所有对抗装备及系统的总称,即在空间信息对抗战场中所能够使用的一切装备,涵盖外层空间、空中、地面、海上以及整个信息网络。利用系统分析的方法,在详细分析空间信息对抗作战特点和作战原则的基础上,重点开展了空间信息对抗装备体系的构成及各部分作战性能研究,建立了空间信息对抗装备体系组成框架,并分析了空间信息对抗武器装备发展趋势。     

空间技术实验与空间技术发展

空间技术实验是空间技术发展的需要,是空间技术发展的先驱和阶梯。本文以美国、苏联、印度、巴西为例说明空间技术实验在过去和未来对空间技术发展的必要性和迫切性。文中研究了90年代世界空间技术实验的发展趋势和具体项目,探讨了我国空间技术实验的现状。     

航天器材料空间环境适应性评价与认定准则研究

航天器材料空间环境适应性是指航天器材料适应空间环境的能力,同时又是航天器系统级空间环境适应性的基础。确保航天器材料空间环境适应性是航天器研制初期重要环节。文章首先介绍了航天器材料的空间环境适应性类型;其次列举了材料空间环境适应性评价试验标准体系;然后分析了空间环境适应性评价手段与认定准则,包括选材阶段的评价试验、采购和使用阶段的验收试验以及空间环境适应性的认定。文章对我国航天器材料空间环境适应性评价与认定工作提出若干建议,为航天器材料选择和空间环境适应性控制提供参考。     

The space elevator in the context of current space exploration policy

The space elevator is an advanced space transportation system that someday could replace chemical rockets as humanity's primary means of reaching Earth's orbit. However, before this can occur, a number of enabling technologies will need to be developed, and a variety of economic and policy questions must be addressed. The goal of this paper is to examine the feasibility of the space elevator in the context of current space exploration policy. The paper reviews the space elevator's critical enabling technologies and presents their wide variety of applications. The challenges of funding the space elevator and of building support for the program are discussed. The potential for international cooperation is considered, and the role of the space elevator in the Vision for Space Exploration is examined. The paper argues that each of the space elevator's component technologies ought to be developed independently to meet separate nearer-term objectives. The space elevator should be just one of many applications considered in making decisions to pursue research and development related to each component technology. The enabling technologies, once mature, might eventually be integrated in the construction of a full-scale space elevator from the Earth's surface to geosynchronous orbit and beyond.     

The growing ‘securitization’ of outer space

Discussions of space security tend to recurrently return to the vexed issue of the ‘militarization’ and ‘weaponization’ of outer space. Debate over whether or not a sustainable definition can be maintained between these two concepts has been a feature of both academic and policy discourses, and has been particularly contentious with regard to new proposals for arms control in outer space. Yet, this paper argues, the militarization/weaponization debate fails to capture to vagaries of contemporary space policy with regard to understandings of ‘security’, and is in this sense an insufficient way of approaching the subject of space security in the first instance. Instead it is now more accurate to say that outer space is becoming ever more ‘securitized’: that is, access to space is now commonly framed as crucial to the military, economic and environmental security of leading states and international organizations.     

Will China become a military space superpower?

China's ambitious space program was born in extremely poor national conditions in 1956. By 15 October 2003, with the successful return of the Shenzhou-4 manned space flight, it had developed dramatically. While this flight is a milestone in China's space capabilities, the Shenzhou-4 mission should be considered not as an end, but as the entry ticket to the space power club of the USA and Russia. China may now be a space power, but it is not yet a military space superpower in the way of the latter two countries. This paper investigates whether China will become a military space superpower by reviewing the development of its space program. It examines Chinese military space capabilities in terms of their military space potential, and discusses the political, military and economic implications of this issue. Finally, the paper suggests that China should continue to take the road to openness, focusing on commercial and economic efforts. This will be an alternative direction in which the country can consider exactly what space capabilities it needs in order to continue its economic development.     

非柔性结构太空梯的构想

文章简略介绍太空梯的概念,概述了目前世界上太空梯系统的状况和研制遇到的普遍困难.由于现有的纳米技术和材料以及加工水平还不能满足缆绳式太空梯的要求,因此文章提出建造一种非柔性结构的太空梯的构想,这样的太空梯虽然运行效率不及缆绳式太空梯,但所要求的材料相对容易得到.     

考虑重力影响的柔性关节空间机械臂任务空间神经网络控制

针对柔性关节空间机器人地面模拟及空间应用受到重力或微重力不确定项干扰的问题,提出一种基于奇异摄动的任务空间神经网络自适应控制算法。首先建立了考虑重力影响的柔性关节空间机器人的模型,通过奇异摄动方法将系统降阶处理后,转换到任务空间进行控制器的设计,利用神经网络自适应算法对系统的不确定性进行逼近,并针对逼近误差设计了鲁棒控制器补偿,最后将控制量转换为关节空间的控制力矩。对系统进行了稳定性分析和仿真校验,结果表明,控制器可以解决柔性带来的系统高频谐振和失稳问题,并能有效抵抗系统扰动,具有很好的跟踪性能。     

空间站吸声降噪设计的仿真评估与验证

文章针对空间站吸声降噪设计中存在的降噪效果评估问题,以空间站缩比结构为研究对象,利用声学有限元法进行吸声降噪设计仿真评估。首先建立适用于空间站的吸声降噪设计仿真评估模型,然后通过地面噪声试验验证仿真模型的准确性;最后对几种空间站可用的不同性质的吸声材料在缩比结构中的降噪效果进行了定量仿真评估。结果表明塑料泡沫的降噪效果最好,其次是浇注泡沫;浇注泡沫的质量相对较轻。本研究可为预先定量评估空间站吸声降噪设计提供参考。     

航天员空间活动接受辐射剂量限值的研究

空间生物学辐射效应是由空间辐射环境引起的,空间辐射环境的变化受太阳活动性影响。空间辐射水平比地表面水平高,航天员在空间所接受剂量比地面人员接受的吸收剂量高出100倍甚至更高,并且高能重离子的生物效应显著。文章简要阐述了空间辐射环境、空间辐射生物学效应与航天员的辐射剂量限值等问题。     

空间烟云的扩散模型

探讨空间烟云用于外层空间目标红外遮蔽隐身干扰,通过分析烟幕扩散体系的真空及微重力效应,基于扩散定律建立了空间烟云的纯扩散模型.研究结果表明,空间烟云施放后其质量浓度在任意时刻的等值面均为一球面,并且随着球半径的增加在空间连续减少;同时结合辐射在烟云中的传输特性研究,获得了空间烟云有效遮蔽面积及遮蔽时间的估算方法.     

发展X-37B空间飞机的背后动因分析

文章通过对X-37B飞行器的飞行试验任务分析,指出了X-37B飞行器不是空天飞机,也不是全球快速打击平台,而是一种低成本太空进入能力的飞行验证器,它的作用定位在空间而不是在空中。通过飞行试验和验证试验,旨在打造一个可重复使用的轨道转移运载器。将美国2010年航天战略的重大调整、国际空间站的运行延期和航天飞机退役等事件结合起来,对X-37B发展的背后动因进行分析,有助于了解美国航天发展的未来趋势。经过动因的详尽分析,指出要特别关注美国航天战略调整的两个重心转向,尤其是两个转向背后的动机。如何正确地认识国际空间站的作用定位,对于审视载人航天的未来发展有重要意义。美国航天战略的调整使载人航天的重心回到近地轨道上。基于中国目前的能力现实,建议中国的载人航天重心放在地球轨道上,做好各种能力的建设,并利用这些能力把地球轨道上的事做得更好。     

美国空间态势感知能力研究

增强空间态势感知能力是空间资源开发、空间安全、空间控制以及利用空间实施军事行动的关键。分析了美国天基空间目标监视的现状及动态,在此基础上讨论了空间目标探测领域所涉及到的各种关键技术及相应的需求方向,为发展天基空间目标监视系统提供了有益参考。     

Behavior of tethered debris with flexible appendages

Active exploration of the space leads to growth of a near-Earth space pollution. The frequency of the registered collisions of space debris with functional satellites highly increased during last 10 years. As a rule a large space debris can be observed from the Earth and catalogued, then it is possible to avoid collision with the active spacecraft. However every large debris is a potential source of a numerous small debris particles. To reduce debris population in the near Earth space the large debris should be removed from working orbits. The active debris removal technique is considered that intend to use a tethered orbital transfer vehicle, or a space tug attached by a tether to the space debris. This paper focuses on the dynamics of the space debris with flexible appendages. Mathematical model of the system is derived using the Lagrange formalism. Several numerical examples are presented to illustrate the mutual influence of the oscillations of flexible appendages and the oscillations of a tether. It is shown that flexible appendages can have a significant influence on the attitude motion of the space debris and the safety of the transportation process.     

临近空间飞行器在电子侦察中的应用研究

临近空间飞行器具有航空航天飞行器无法比拟的优势,在军事上有着广阔的应用前景。介绍了临近空间及临近空间飞行器的概念和特点,总结了临近空间飞行器的发展现状和趋势,并着重探讨了临近空间飞行器在电子侦察方面的应用。