Decisions, endings, and new beginnings

The Washington Watch column examines NASA shuttle developments, airline pilot age issues, development of a personnel recovery vehicle, and includes an obituary for retired Air Force General Bernard Schriever, remembered as an air and space pioneer. The discussion of NASA shuttle developments reports on the space shuttle flight schedule and NASA's ability to deliver hardware to the International Space Station, funding levels and equipment development schedules related to President Bush's mandate to visit Mars, a report on the space program by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and top-level management changes at NASA. The discussion of airline pilot age issues examines efforts to change mandatory retirement requirements. The discussion of personnel recovery vehicles reports on development of an aircraft designed to rescue survivors during combat search and rescue missions.     

基于GA的民航飞机水平航线动态寻优算法

目前的机载飞行管理计算机系统 (FMCS)在进行飞行优化时 ,视航路为固定常量。这与自由飞概念是相斥的 ,而且也制约了对空域和GPS等技术的充分利用。水平航线的动态实时优化是解决该问题的根本方法。本文首先研究了该优化问题的数学建模 ;然后针对普通寻优算法耗时颇巨的缺点 ,提出了基于一种改进的遗传算法 (GA)的航线动态优化算法 ;最后给出了部分仿真实验结果以评估此算法的性能。     

适合航天飞机应用的星体跟踪器

本文推导了航天飞机采用新型探测器件——电荷耦合器件CCD（ChargeCoupled DeVices）组成的星体跟踪器进行姿态稳定的公式。并提供一种适合航天飞机应用的星体跟踪器原理样机。     

高速再入飞行试验再入条件优化设计

飞行器返回再入时将经历极高的气动热环境,因此深空探测返回飞行器,尤其是载人飞船需要通过实际飞行试验验证相关性能,为降低成本和研制风险,通常采用大再入角和相对第二宇宙速度较低的再入速度进行飞行试验。为获得能实现高热流密度验证的最小能量再入任务方案,采用优化设计手段对飞行试验的再入角和速度以及倾侧角控制进行设计,经仿真分析表明,优化结果可达到飞行试验要求的热流密度,并可将再入速度需求降低约2．1 km／s。     

2013 年国外载人航天发展综合分析

2013年,各主要航天国家依据本国具体国情,以审慎务实的态度持续推进载人航天活动。基于此背景,综述了2013年国外载人航天领域发展动态,梳理了国际空间站及深空探索领域的系列成果,分析了重型运载火箭、新型飞船、空间商业运输能力的发展趋势。     

载人航天器显示仪表展望

根据９０年代的先进技术展望载人航天器显示仪表的未来发展。在简单回顾现有航天器仪表之后,介绍９０年代有代表性的先进的波音７７７飞机座舱仪表。接着讨论彩色液晶平板显示仪、大屏幕显示仪与玻璃座舱等９０年代的先进技术,并提出由计算机统一管理的带自然语言输出的仪表,以发挥航天员听觉的作用和减轻航天员的视觉负担。     

航天任务计划工作模式研究

地面采用何种方式来调度运行任务系统并对航天器实施控制,是飞行控制中心面临的一个重大问题。本文针对航天任务的特点,提出了采用计划工作模式的思想与方法。首先论述了采用计划工作模式的理论依据,然后探讨了计划工作模式的基本概念、特点和要求,阐述了航天任务计划工作模式的基本内容,最后讨论了计划工作模式的关键技术以及采用计划工作模式实现飞行控制自动化的可能性。     

Electronic Logbook for Space System Integration & Test Operations

In the highly technological aerospace world, paper is still widely used to document space system integration and test (I&T) operations. E-Logbook (electronic logbook) is a new technology designed to replace current documentation processes of space system I&T operations, such as connector mate and demate, flight hardware and flight software component installation, material mixes or electronic ground support equipment (EGSE) validation. It also includes new documentation concepts, such as the shift log, which improves project awareness and optimizes the shift hand-over process, and the configuration log, which instantly reports on the global I&T state of the space system and greatly enhances information gathering prior to major test events or project reviews. The design of E-Logbook focuses not only on a reliable and efficient relational database, but also on an ergonomic human-computer interactive (HCI) system of graphical user interfaces (GUI) that can help reduce human error and improve I&T discipline and management oversight. E-Logbook has been used for the I&T of the large area telescope (LAT) of the gamma-ray large area space telescope (GLAST) scientific satellite at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). After 19 months of operation, more than 41,000 records have been created for the different documentation components or I&T Logs, with no data having been corrupted or critically lost. 94% of the operators and 100% of the management exposed to E-Logbook prefer it to paper logbooks and recommend its use in the aerospace industry.     

Design and experimental study of a new flapping wing rotor micro aerial vehicle

A three-wing Flapping Wing Rotor Micro Aerial Vehicle (FWR-MAV) which can perform controlled flight is introduced and an experimental study on this vehicle is presented. A mechanically driven flapping rotary mechanism is designed to drive the three flapping wings and generate lift, and control mechanisms are designed to control the pose of the FWR-MAV. A flight control board for attitude control with robust onboard attitude estimation and a control algorithm is also developed to perform stable hovering flight and forward flight. A series of flight tests was conducted, with hovering flight and forward flight tests performed to optimize the control parameters and assess the performance of the FWR-MAV. The hovering flight test shows the ability of the FWR-MAV to counteract the moment generated by rotary motion and maintain the attitude of the FWR-MAV in space; the experiment of forward flight shows that the FWR-MAV can track the desired attitude.     

基于飞行包线划分的航空发动机T-S模糊模型辨识

针对航空发动机在建立Takagi-Sugeno(T-S)模糊模型时运算耗时长和过分依赖学习数据的问题,提出了一种基于飞行包线划分的航空发动机T-S建模方法.通过飞行包线划分和标称点求取确定T-S模型的前件结构;计算各标称点的状态空间模型,将其作为T-S模型的后件;最后通过对航空发动机发参数据的机器学习完成对模型前件参数的辨识.仿真对比结果表明:该方法缩短了航空发动机T-S模糊模型的建模时间,并使得高压转子和低压转子转速的绝对误差分别小于0.25%,0.10%,保持了辨识精度.      

A Program Plan for Earth Orbital Space Astronomy

Manned space flight offers the opportunity to couple the astronaut /scientist's ability to select and process data and to calibrate, modify, and repair instruments with the vantage point for astronomical observations provided by a platformlocated above the Earth's atmosphere. The role which manned space flight may play in the 1970-1990 time period in meeting astronomy research needs is examined. The instruments and facilities that appear feasible for that period are described.     

Future of Venus Research and Exploration

Despite the tremendous progress that has been made since the publication of the Venus II book in 1997, many fundamental questions remain concerning Venus’ history, evolution and current geologic and atmospheric processes. The international science community has taken several approaches to prioritizing these questions, either through formal processes like the Planetary Decadal Survey in the United States and the Cosmic Vision in Europe, or informally through science definition teams utilized by Japan, Russia, and India. These questions are left to future investigators to address through a broad range of research approaches that include Earth-based observations, laboratory and modeling studies that are based on existing data, and new space flight missions. Many of the highest priority questions for Venus can be answered with new measurements acquired by orbiting or in situ missions that use current technologies, and several plausible implementation concepts have been studied and proposed for flight. However, observations needed to address some science questions pose substantial technological challenges, for example, long term survival on the surface of Venus and missions that require surface or controlled aerial mobility. Missions enabled by investments in these technologies will open the door to completely new ways of exploring Venus to provide unique insights into Venus’s past and the processes at work today.     

临近空间飞行器推进系统预冷器关键技术

临近空间由于其在现代战争中的重要战略意义已成为各国航空航天领域的研究重点,高超声速飞行器更是国家临近空间军事实力的一个重要标志。由于吸气式高超声速飞行器具有较高的飞行高度与马赫数,预冷技术已成为高超声速飞行器推进系统中的一项关键技术,而高性能预冷器设计是预冷技术的一个重要研究方向,预冷器的可靠性与流动传热特性是预冷系统的重要影响参数,对于紧凑、高效、高可靠性先进预冷器的研究具有十分重要的意义。基于目前公开的临近空间高超声速飞行器的主要动力形式及其对预冷技术的刚性需求,对预冷器设计中的关键技术与发展方向做了详细的阐述。     

Problems in formation and control of a required microacceleration level at spacecraft design,tests, and operation

In this paper, we consider the main aspects of a problem in formation and control of a required microacceleration level as the most important characteristic of the space laboratory intended for realizing the gravitational and sensitive technological processes. The estimation model and methodology to control and estimate the microaccelerations are presented that are necessary for the well-founded choice of the spacecraft parameters and carrying out their flight and space tests, when the new special-purpose space laboratories are designed and constructed.     

高超声速临近空间飞行器非开普勒轨道研究

以高超声速临近空间飞行器非开普勒轨道弹跳飞行为研究对象,论证了高超声速临近空间飞行器飞行轨道属于非开普勒轨道的研究范畴.首先给出了非开普勒轨道机动巡航段、再人段和再入瞬间的动力学方程;其次研究了再入瞬间高超声速临近空间飞行器的位置矢量求解问题,提出弹跳系数的概念;最后进行了仿真分析.仿真结果表明,非开普勒轨道动力学方程...     

低速风洞飞行器模型编队飞行绳系并联支撑机构

设计了一种用于飞行器双机编队飞行的风洞试验模型绳系并联支撑机构,模拟在周边有障碍物的有限空间通道中的飞行运动。以直升机为例,根据工况参数设计了双绳牵引并联机构作为飞行器模型的支撑,建立了基于可移动的滑轮铰点与直升机模型编队协同飞行的运动学模型,对系统的静刚度进行了分析,并通过试验验证了旋翼转动对该绳系支撑系统动刚度的影响,给出了在有限空间通道中模拟双机编队飞行与着陆过程中绳与绳之间、绳与模型之间的干涉算法,并对该支撑机构的绳系结构进行了干涉分析。结果表明,所设计的支撑机构能有效解决模拟飞行器模型双机编队在有限空间中飞行运动时的支撑干涉问题,而且系统刚度达到低速风洞试验的稳定性要求,是低速风洞中支撑飞行器模型进行编队飞行试验的有效解决方案。     

An intelligent approach for flight risk prediction under icing conditions

Flight risk prediction is significant in improving the flight crew’s situational awareness because it allows them to adopt appropriate operation strategies to prevent risk expansion caused by abnormal conditions, especially aircraft icing conditions. The flight risk space representing the nonlinear mapping relations between risk degree and the three-dimensional commanded vector(commanded airspeed, commanded bank angle, and commanded vertical velocity) is developed to provide the crew with practi...     

微波空间定位系统及在飞行试验中的应用

介绍“微波空间定位系统”及其在飞行试验中的应用，该系统达到的定位和测速精度与电影经纬仪相近，比雷达高，便携式的ＫＤＣＣ系统，体积小，重量轻，使用维护简单，是一种具有高经济效益的飞机航迹测量系统。该系统可用于飞机性能，操稳和系统试飞的测试，也可推广用于某些制导武器的弹道测试。已成功地在飞机的飞行试验中应用。该系统的研制成功，将为提高校准精度，降低试飞成本提供一种有效的手段。     

航迹规划中雷达探测空间的生成

从飞机突防习行任务规划出发，综合考虑地球曲率、陆地（或海洋）的反射和杂波干扰、大气折射和吸收损耗等因素的影响，采用临界散射截面法生成了对空警戒雷达在不同地貌、发现概率下，对不同雷达散射截面的目标的探测空间。计算并分析了飞行高度、目标雷达散射截面、发现概率和地貌等因素对雷达探测空间的影响，以便选择低探测概率的飞行走廓，这对制定和实施安全突防飞行策略有实际意义。     

Space Flight Validation of Design and Engineering of the ZDPS-1A Pico-satellite

The ZDPS-1A pico-satellites are the first satellites in China within the 1-10 kg mass range that are successfully operated on orbit. Unlike common pico-satellites, they are designed to be "larger but stronger" with more powerful platforms and unique payloads so as to bear a better promise for real applications. Through their space flight mission, the functionality and performance of the two flight models are tested on orbit and validated to be mostly normal and in consistency with design and ground tests with only several inconforming occasions. Moreover, they have worked properly on orbit for one year so far, well exceeding their life expectancy of three months. Therefore, the space flight mission has reached all its goals, and verified that the design concept and the engineering process of the picosatellites are sufficient in allowing them the desired functionality and performance in, and the adaption to the launch procedure and the low-Earth orbit space environment. In the foreseeable future, the platform together with the design concept and the engineering process of the pico-satellites are expected to be applied to more complicated real space applications.