Design of phase-locked loop for communication system via on-board signal processing satellites

The energy inconsistency for a multiple access system via an active satellite with simple repeating of signals is claimed. The on-board ideal signal processing algorithm resolving this inconsistency is considered and the optimal group signal processing algorithm in a manner of digital signals shape transformation followed by their time compression is suggested. The necessity for individual clock synchronization of ground stations is shown and the synchronous multiple access system block diagram with an optimal on-board signal processing is discussed.A phase disturbance dynamics of a two-loops clock synchronization system with variable time delay is investigated. A nonlinear differential-difference equation is obtained and for the first order PLL with time delay the exact solutions are found in cases of relay and linear shapes phase discriminator's characteristics. Phase errors' expressions are derived and the main factors of accuracy limiting caused by PLL's feedback time delay are established.     

Telerobotics and orbital laboratories: an end-to-end analysis and demonstration

A preliminary analysis of the United States Laboratory (USL) module of the International Space Station has been completed. A major conclusion was that one of the most limited resources within the USL will be crew time. A laboratory robot would alleviate these constraints, improve safety, and reduce operational costs. A laboratory experiment manipulator system (LEMS) is proposed, made up of an on-board mobile manipulator and a computer-assisted operator control station. The on-board manipulator concept was tested with an Intelledex 660 industrial robot. Operator joystick command capability and delayed video feedback were added to simulate a Space Station Teleoperation system. The implementation of a unique predictive display was chosen for further evaluation because of its promise as a partial solution to the classical problem of robot remote control in the presence of time delay. The incorporation of various correction factors to calibrate the robot predictor model, including geometric distortion and spherical aberration caused by the video optics, is described.     

一种网络化卫星测控系统多址接入算法研究

大规模低轨卫星星座的出现,对地面测控系统提出了更高的要求,这使得网络化测控技术成为了各国研究的重点技术。本文针对低轨卫星网络化测控系统的接入问题进行了研究。首先,概述了传统低轨卫星星座发展历程及多址接入技术需求背景;然后,在分析传统CSMA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access,载波侦听多路访问)与TDMA(Time Division Multiple Access,时分多址)接入技术性能的基础上,提出了一种自适应接入方案,使得网络化测控系统在负载量较高或较低时都具有良好的网络性能。本文通过仿真验证了自适应接入技术在系统时延、吞吐量以及信道利用率上的优越性。     

北斗地基增强系统国产民机试飞性能评估

由于GPS在国际上的技术和标准优势,目前在民用航空领域使用的星基导航大多为GPS。随着我国民航领域的蓬勃发展和北斗卫星导航系统宣告全球组网成功,亟需开展北斗地基增强系统在民航领域的应用性能评估,以验证其是否可满足民航飞机对卫星导航系统的要求。针对民航飞机的I类精密进近过程,梳理了该航段中国际民航组织对卫星导航系统的性能需求,推导了北斗地基增强系统垂直保护级计算数学模型,制定了搭载试飞试验的加改装方案和飞行科目,在国产某型号民机上开展了北斗地基增强系统搭载试飞试验,并对定位精度和垂直保护级进行了分析评估。结果表明：在搭载试飞试验中,北斗地基增强系统可满足I类精密进近对卫星导航系统垂直精度的需求,同时系统不存在告警和误警。     

新一代运载火箭地面设备监控系统研究

介绍采用数字化视频远程图像监控 ,应用于新一代运载火箭地面设备监控系统的设想。论述利用数字视频远程监控技术可在新一代运载火箭地面设备监控系统内建立监控调度中心 ,对远端现场的图像声音及其他敏感数据进行实时监控以便对敏感事件进行快速反应。     

空海自组网随机接入仿真研究

针对无人机在远海远域协同任务过程中的空海信息协同共享需求,提出了一种基于优先级传输的动态随机接入协议。首先,通过设计高效集群组网信令保证集群测控通信自组网的遥测、遥控信息的稳定传输;然后,结合改进的TDMA （时分多址）组网时隙结构实现节点快速入网与动态时隙分配协议;最后,通过OPNET （网络仿真技术软件包）分析所设计的集群空海自组网系统的随机接入低时延、业务传输高吞吐量和端到端传输低时延性能。结果表明：该组网信令下建网时间只需要2～3个飞控周期,在32节点场景下节点完成随机Aloha入网时延平均不到0.6 s,改进的TDMA协议在端到端时延比传统TDMA协议降低1/3。     

新一代运载火箭的数据驱动快速测试技术

本文提出一种数据驱动的快速测试技术。数据由箭上系统通过自检测(BIT)采集,经箭地高速总线传送至地面;地面数据处理终端采用与箭上系统相同的模型和算法,复现箭上的处理过程,从而判断系统中是否存在故障,实现快速故障定位。本文全面介绍实现这一设计的关键技术,包括箭上信息监测点的选择、总线窃听技术、飞行软件中的数据管理任务等,并示例说明各类典型数据的分析以及故障诊断和定位等。所有分析工作均实时自动完成,并能随测试用例的调整自适应地计算出新的比对结果,为提高系统级测试的覆盖性创造条件;并大大节省地面专用测试设备和数据分析时间,减少技术保障人员。     

星载激光雷达高精高稳探测卫星系统保证技术

激光雷达探测精度高,具备全天时工作和垂直探测能力,在大气环境天基遥感领域应用广泛。基于CO_2柱线浓度激光遥感探测原理,分析了积分路径差分吸收星载激光雷达测量系统的激光波长、能量精度和稳定性及光轴指向精度等关键指标要求和功能模块配置,重点开展了星载激光雷达光机头部稳定安装、良好机热环境保障及星敏载荷一体化布局等整星层面系统设计保证,仿真结果初步表明设计方案可行。同时,提出了激光雷达波长、能量精度及稳定性实时监测、卫星对地光轴指向高精度测定和星地载荷光轴指向测量误差标定的地面试验验证要求,以确保系统设计的有效性,为激光雷达遥感卫星的研制提供了技术参考。     

Emergency end of life operations for CNES remote sensing satellites—Management and operational process

The French Space Agency (CNES) is currently operating thirteen satellites among which five remote sensing satellites. This fleet is composed of two civilian (SPOT) and three military (HELIOS) satellites and it has been recently completed by the first PLEIADES satellite which is devoted to both civil and military purposes. The CNES operation board decided to appoint a Working Group (WG) in order to anticipate and tackle issues related to the emergency End Of Life (EOL) operations due to unexpected on-board events affecting the satellite. This is of particular interest in the context of the French Law on Space Operations (LSO), entered in force on Dec. 2010, which states that any satellite operator must demonstrate its capability to control the space vehicle whatever the mission phase from the launch up to the EOL. Indeed, after several years in orbit the satellites may be affected by on-board anomalies which could damage the implementation of EOL operations, i.e. orbital manoeuvres or platform disposal. Even if automatic recovery actions ensure autonomous reconfigurations on redundant equipment, i.e. setting for instance the satellite into a safe mode, it is crucial to anticipate the consequences of failures of every equipment and functions necessary for the EOL operations. For this purpose, the WG has focused on each potential anomaly by analysing: its emergency level, as well as the EOL operations potentially inhibited by the failure and the needs of on-board software workarounds… The main contribution of the WG consisted in identifying a particular satellite configuration called “minimal Withdrawal From Service (WFS) configuration”. This configuration corresponds to an operational status which involves a redundancy necessary for the EOL operations. Therefore as soon as a satellite reaches this state, a dedicated steering committee is activated and decides of the future of the satellite with respect to three options: a/. the satellite is considered safe and can continue its mission using the redundancy, b/. the EOL operations must be planned within a mid-term period, or c/. the EOL operations must be implemented as soon as possible by the operational teams. The paper describes this management and operational process illustrated with study cases of failures on SPOT and PLEIADES satellites corresponding to various emergency situations.     

Reducing mission operations costs through spacecraft autonomy: the near earth asteroid rendezvous (near) experience

With a maximum time of 12 days out of ground contact and a round-trip light time as high as 56 minutes, The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft requires a moderate degree of onboard autonomy to react to faults and safe the spacecraft. Beyond the basic safing requirements, additional functions are carried out onboard. For example, on-board calculation of the Sun, Earth, asteroid, and spacecraft positions allow the spacecraft to autonomously orient itself for science and downlink operations. On-board autonomous momentum management during cruise relieves Mission Operations from planning, scheduling, and carrying out many manual momentum dumps. During development, additional operations, such as center-of-mass management during propulsive maneuvers and optical navigation were also considered for onboard autonomy on the NEAR spacecraft, but were not selected. The allocation of functions to onboard software or to ground operations involved tradeoffs such as development time for onboard software versus ground software, resource management, life cycle costs, and spacecraft safety.After two years of cruise operations, considerable experience with the NEAR autonomy system has accrued. The utility of some autonomous capabilities is greater than expected, others less so. Software uploads increased spacecraft autonomy in some cases, and the impact on Mission Operations can be assessed. Allocation of functions between spacecraft autonomy and ground operation during development of future missions can be improved by applying the lessons learned from the NEAR experience.     

Attitude control schemes for the first recovery mission of India

This paper describes the attitude control schemes for the various phases such as acquisition, on-orbit, orbit maneuver, de-boost maneuvers and coast phases of the India's first recovery mission Space Capsule Recovery Experiment-I (SRE-1). During the on-orbit phase, the SRE was configured to point the negative roll axis to Sun. The attitude referencing of SRE-1 was based on dry tuned gyros with updates from the attitude determined using on-board Sun sensors and magnetometer. For attitude acquisition, attitude maneuvers and for providing the velocity corrections for de-orbiting operations; a set of eight thrusters grouped in functionally redundant blocks were used. The control scheme with thrusters was based on proportional derivative controller with a modulator. In order to ensure micro-gravity environment during the on-orbit payload operations a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) based control scheme was designed to drive an orthogonal configuration of magnetic torquers which in turn produced three-axis control torque with the interaction of Earth's magnetic field. Proportional derivative control scheme with modulator was designed to track the steering commands during the velocity reduction as well as during the coasting phase of the de-orbiting operations. A novel thruster failure detection, isolation and reconfiguration scheme implemented on-board for the de-orbiting phase is also discussed in this paper.     

Space station freedom ground systems program—A survey

The Space Station Freedom will be a permanently manned, low-Earth orbit research facility, elements of which are being provided by the United States, Canada, countries of the European Space Agency and Japan. The facility will be assembled in space and operated well into the twenty-first century. The ground infrastructure must be able to support both assembly and long-term operations. The infrastructure will consist of ground facilities, support systems and the associated planning and management procedures. The key facilities identified to support Space Station Freedom Program (SSFP) integrated operations and their SSFP roles will be described in detail in this paper.

Requirements for the integrated ground infrastructure are developed and controlled within the SSFP requirements documentation and baselining processes. A Ground Systems Program directive summarizes key operations functions, roles and responsibilities of the various program participants. During 1992, the SSFP is conducting a major program review of the ground infrastructure including the definition of all facility and support system functional capabilities, interfaces and dataflow requirements. Operations functionality and interface verification tests are being identified and operations readiness dates are being established.     

Autonomy in ground operations for geo-missions of ISRO

Geosynchronous space missions of ISRO with wide spectrum of payloads provide vital infrastructure for National Development and economic programs. Space technology had grown at a phenomenal rate and complex systems are already operational. Successful mission operations depend very much on many ground systems and knowledge base of the informed operator. An effective balance is to be maintained while using on-board autonomy and automatic operations from ground. The requirement to protect the payload services has increased since the solar activity is reportedly higher during recent times. The rich experience of Geo-mission operations has helped ISRO in formulating suitable algorithms and successfully implementing them to ensure service protection. The other benefit is operational economy since skilled work force is able to concentrate on health analysis and planning rather than routine operations. In this paper, certain case studies are discussed illustrating different levels of automation in ground operations.     

适用于天地一体化网络的无证书密钥协商协议

为了保证天地一体化网络中用户信息的传输安全,改进传统方案的高时延等问题,本文提出一种轻量级的无证书密钥协商方案。首先,本文分析无证书密钥协商协议系统模型,针对天地一体化网络的特点提出协议需要满足双向认证、抗重放、完整性等安全需求。其次,本文选择一种轻量级的无证书加密方案,在此基础上提出密钥协商协议,满足天地一体化网络的资源和安全要求。最终,本文对提出的密钥协商协议进行BAN(Burrow-Adadi-Needham)逻辑安全性分析,并结合软件对协议性能仿真进行比较,结果表明：该方案在满足网络安全性需求的同时实现高效快速的协商。     

Earth observation using low cost micro/minisatellites

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) at the University of Surrey (UK) has pioneered cost-effective satellite engineering techniques for smaller, faster, cheaper satellites to provide affordable access to space. SSTL has designed, built, launched and operated a series of twelve 50kg microsatellites in low Earth orbit which carry a wide range of satellite communications, space science, remote sensing and in-orbit technology demonstration payloads — for both civil and military applications. Each of these has been built and launched for around US$3M. This paper reviews SSTL's remote sensing capabilities and presents image results from the microsatellite cameras in low Earth in orbit. The latest microsatellites (TMSAT & FASat-Bravo) under construction at SSTL and due for launch in mid-1997 will provide 3-band multispectral imaging with 80-metre resolution; autonomous on-board image analysis, processing and compression prior to transmission direct to ground-based users employing small portable terminals.     

Image compression systems on board satellites

On-board image compression systems aim to increase the amount of data stored in the on-board mass memory and transmitted to the ground station. This paper presents an overview and analysis of the state-of-the-art in on-board image compression systems. Compression methods and systems implementations are reviewed. Statistical analysis and developing trends are given. A new architecture of an on-board image compression system for future disaster monitoring multi-satellite missions in LEO is described.     

基于OFDM星载交换的星地下行链路子载波分配与峰均比抑制联合优化方法

提出了一种基于OFDM的全新星载交换方案,此星载交换方案可通过星上子载波交 换实现业务交换。以点波束星地下行链路为研究对象,结合跨层设计思想,提出了一种 适用于点波束星地下行链路的子载波分配和峰均比抑制方法。此方法可根据点波束星地下行 链路信号发射功率上限、当前点波束星地下行链路信道状态、每个星地下行链路传输业务目 的地和QoS要求,并结合抑制点波束星地下行链路OFDM信号的峰均比,实现在属于不同地面 设备的各个星地下行链路传输业务之间自适应分配子载波,实现充分利用点波束星地下行链 路资源、满足传输业务的QoS要求,同时抑制星地下行链路OFDM信号的峰均比,而且不会因 抑制星地下行链路OFDM信号的峰均比而增加额外的边带信息和传输功率。
     

Image based control of the “PINOCCHIO” experimental free flying platform

A free floating platform is realized with a pneumatic suspension system which enables a two-dimensional test of complex space operations, such as rendezvous and docking. The platform is equipped with a IMU and actuated via cold gas thrusters. In addition, an on-board camera is used to acquire a target and its image is processed for evaluating the control actions needed to reach it. A technique for determining the relative position and velocity with respect to target using the same visual device is proposed and realized. The novel algorithms and relevant experimental results are presented. The tested accuracy of the relative navigation system is not very high, but the guidance algorithm, which is image based and has just a weak dependence on the position information, is robust enough to perform a successful maneuver. The error between the final acquired target image and the desired final target image is of the order of one pixel, notwithstanding all the testbed disturbances.     

基于星上动态指令调度的卫星使用效能提升技术

针对传统任务管理模式采用静态约束指令序列导致卫星使用效能的不足,提出一种基于有向图模型的动态约束自适应任务管理方案。采用面向用户的星地任务控制接口,利用地面仿真和星上实时遥测获取任务运行过程的动态约束参数,星载计算机据此动态生成任务指令序列。针对某高性能光学卫星的仿真试验表明,与传统任务管理模式相比,卫星操作接口复杂度减少88.5%,任务注入效率提升699%,有效载荷数据传输效率提升10%,全球数据获取能力提升11%,对我国区域的实时数据获取能力提升100%。方案对遥感卫星在轨运行管理具有借鉴意义。     

Feasibility assessment of optical technologies for reliable high capacity feeder links

Space telecom scenarios like data relay satellite and broadband/broadcast service providers require reliable feeder links with high bandwidth/data rate for the communication between ground station and satellite. Free space optical communication (FSOC) is an attractive alternative to microwave links, improving performance by offering abundant bandwidth at small apertures of the optical terminals. At the same time Near-Earth communication by FSOC avoids interference with other services and is free of regulatory issues. The drawback however is the impairment by the laser propagation through the atmosphere at optical wavelengths. Also to be considered are questions of eye safety for ground personnel and aviation. In this paper we assess the user requirements for typical space telecom scenarios and compare these requirements with solutions using optical data links through the atmosphere. We suggest a site diversity scheme with a number of ground stations and a switching scheme using two optical terminals on-board the satellite. Considering the technology trade-offs between four different optical wavelengths we recommend the future use of 1.5 µm laser technology and calculate a link budget for an atmospheric condition of light haze on the optical path. By comparing link budgets we show an outlook to the future potential use of 10 µm laser technology.