Orbital and Attitude Prediction Accuracy Requirements for Satellites Engaged in Remote Sensing and Scientific Missions

The criteria for selecting the orbital and attitude prediction accuracy requirements for communications satellites have been investigated in a previous paper by the author. The present paper extends the analysis to the satellites engaged in remote sensing and scientific missions. A unified approach has been developed to examine the problem of the prediction accuracy requirements for the two missions.     

Pointing and Stability Requirements for Earth Orbital Experiments

Experiments for manned and unmanned space facilities of the next decade will impose stringent requirements for accurately pointing and/or maintaining stability of the space platforms over extended periods. Potential experiment programs identified to date in various NASA-and contractor-sponsored studies have been reviewed in order to define critical values and ranges for the following pointing/stability parameters: 1) pointing accuracy, 2) line-of-sight stability, 3) angular rate, and/or 4) acceleration level. The most stringent requirements were found to be in the research categories of: stellar and solar astronomy, earth observations, space physics, communications and navigation, and space biology.     

基于等倾角进动的自旋卫星姿态控制方法

姿态控制是自旋稳定卫星控制的基本任务之一,其控制方法有多种,本文主要针对等倾角法进行研究.首先介绍等倾角法姿态控制的基本原理,然后详细地给出姿态控制前需确定的理论执行角、实际执行次数和时延等控制量的具体计算方法,最后进行了姿态机动仿真控制.仿真结果表明,控制量的计算结果准确,控制过程的预测结果与实际控制过程一致.此方法已在多颗自旋卫星发射中得到应用和验证.     

地球静止轨道自旋卫星姿态确定及控制策略

本文从工程应用的角度详尽地介绍了地球静止轨道自旋卫星姿态原理及确定方法,以我国在轨运行的风云二号卫星为例,给出了大量工程实测数据,并给出姿态控制实施策略,它们已经成功地运用到我国在轨自旋同步卫星的管理。     

The Use of a Spinning Dissipator for Attitude Stabilization of Earth-Orbiting Satellites

This paper considers a novel attitude stabilizing system which acts both as a passive nutation damper and a momentum source for an Earth-orbiting satellite. The system may be designed to use four identical wheels mounted coaxially with and at the ends of the arms of a cruciform structure. The structure may then be spun about the axis perpendicular to the arms to provide angular momentum along the spacecraft spin axis. The wheels experience torques produced by inertial forces. The necessary damping and restoring (spring) torques are provided by means of a torsional arrangement built around the center of each wheel. The performance characteristics of the proposed stabilizing unit are evaluated by considering spacecraft parameters used in one phase of development of the Communications Technology Satellite (CTS). The results obtained for a specific design of the stabilizer indicate that global stability of the desired attitude motion of the spacecraft can be guaranteed with associated damping time constant as low as one second.     

绕飞监测小卫星姿轨联合自适应控制研究

针对小卫星近距操作过程中轨道和姿态控制问题,建立了小卫星相对轨道和姿态的误差动力学模型。采用相对轨道和姿态联合控制策略,并考虑小卫星作业过程中质量和转动惯量的不确定性,设计了自适应输出反馈控制律,并证明了其稳定性。最后以对圆轨道目标星近距离环航为例,根据作业任务和姿态指向要求,设计了小卫星相对轨道和姿态的期望运动,应用所提出的控制策略及相应的控制律进行了数值仿真。结果表明,系统跟踪误差能够较快收敛,说明了控制策略的有效性。     

小卫星编队飞行队形设计与轨道要素确定

用两体相对运动的线性Hill方程进行了小卫星编队飞行队形的初步设计，并给出编队飞行中各绕飞小卫星轨道要素的确定过程，以空间圆形编队为例，在未考虑摄动情况下，通过仿真验证了Hill方程在小卫星编队队形初步设计中的有效性。     

重力梯度力矩引起的自旋稳定卫星姿态摄动

建立了自旋稳定卫星姿态摄动的数值分析方法及模型,对重力梯度力矩作用下自旋卫星自旋轴相对于地心惯性系进动和章动以及赤经和赤纬的变化进行了仿真分析。对重力梯度力矩引起的自旋稳定卫星姿态摄动的演化规律进行了研究。指出在重力梯度力矩的作用下：自旋轴指向绕轨道面法线进动;章动角速度远小于进动角速度;轨道角速度越大,星体相对于地心惯性系的进动角速度和章动角速度越大,赤经和赤纬的变化率越大;自旋角速度越大,星体相对于地心惯性系的进动角速度和章动角速度越小,赤经和赤纬的变化率越小。     

A Diagnostic Tree Approach for Fault Cause Identification in the Attitude Control Subsystem of Satellites

Space and Earth observation programs demand stringent guarantees ensuring smooth and reliable operations of space vehicles and satellites. Due to unforeseen circumstances and naturally occurring faults, it is desired that a fault-diagnosis system be capable of detecting, isolating, identifying, or classifying faults in the system. Unfortunately, none of the existing fault-diagnosis methodologies alone can meet all the requirements of an ideal fault- diagnosis system due to the variety of fault types, their severity, and handling mechanisms. However, it is possible to overcome these shortcomings through the integration of different existing fault-diagnosis methodologies. In this paper, a novel learning-based, diagnostic-tree approach is proposed which complements and strengthens existing efficient fault detection mechanisms with an additional ability to classify different types of faults to effectively determine potential fault causes in a subsystem of a satellite. This extra capability serves as a semiautomatic diagnostic decision support aid to expert human operators at ground stations and enables them to determine fault causes and to take quick and efficient recovery/reconfiguration actions. The developed diagnosis/analysis procedure exploits a qualitative technique denoted as diagnostic tree (DX-tree) analysis as a diagnostic tool for fault cause analysis in the attitude control subsystem (ACS) of a satellite. DX-trees constructed by our proposed machine-learning-based automatic tree synthesis algorithm are demonstrated to be able to determine both known and unforeseen combinations of events leading to different fault scenarios generated through synthetic attitude control subsystem data of a satellite. Though the immediate application of our proposed approach would be at ground stations, the proposed technique has potential for being integrated with causal model-based diagnosis and recovery techniques for future autonomous space vehicle missions.     

Implications of Rotation, Orbital States, Energy Sources, and Heat Transport for Internal Processes in Icy Satellites

Internal processes in icy satellites, e.g. the exchange of material from the subsurface to the surface or processes leading to volcanism and resurfacing events, are a consequence of the amount of energy available in the satellites’ interiors. The latter is mainly determined shortly after accretion by the amount of radioactive isotopes incorporated in the silicates during the accretion process. However, for satellites—as opposed to single objects—important contributions to the energy budget on long time-scales can come from the interaction with other satellites (forcing of eccentricities of satellites in resonance) and consequently from the tidal interaction with the primary planet. Tidal evolution involves both changes of the rotation state—usually leading to the 1:1 spin orbit coupling—and long-term variations of the satellite orbits. Both processes are dissipative and thus connected with heat production in the interior. The way heat is transported from the interior to the surface (convection, conduction, (cryo-) volcanism) is a second main aspect that determines how internal processes in satellites work. In this chapter we will discuss the physics of heat production and heat transport as well as the rotational and orbital states of satellites. The relevance of the different heat sources for the moons in the outer solar system are compared and discussed.     

High Power Needs for Commercial Satellites

This overview paper presents estimates of the photovoltaic power systems needed on commercial communications spacecraft in the year 2000. These are developed in the form of power requirements based on extrapolation of the historical growth in communications traffic and are about 5 to 15 kW. The paper also addresses the key technology drivers in these photovoltaic systems. The importance of reducing mass in the power system is described in terms of the tradeoff with communications systems mass to maximize communications revenue. It surveys solar array components and subsystems to meet these future requirements and attempts to identify the development candidates with a large payoff potential and a high probability of successful development.     

Quantization of PMT Signals for Meteorological Satellites

Quantization rules are examined for a satellite radiometer in the visual range. Effects of photomultiplier tube (PMT) noise on the detection of cloud brightness levels are of particular interest because the expected radiance levels are high. Effects of area integration are considered to improve the probability of detection at high radiance levels.     

A Nomogram for Look Angles to Geostationary Satellites

TA chart is presented that allows for the rapid determination of the azimuth and elevation to a geostationary satellite, given the satellite longitude and the latitude and longitude of the ground site.     

成像观测卫星多星联合调度模型及其列生成求解算法研究

首先介绍成像观测卫星调度问题的特点和主要约束,将成像观测卫星调度分为调度预处理、调度模型及求解、调度结果评估3个阶段。在此基础上,论述成像观测卫星调度模型,并采用列生成法,将多卫星调度问题分解为集合分割主问题和单卫星调度子问题,通过循环迭代来求解调度模型。最后,针对本文提出的算法设计一个问题实例,并给出算法计算结果。结果分析表明,本文提出的模型和算法能较好解决实际应用问题。     

Decision Cells for Positional Radar Identification of Satellites

There is a problem in deciding whether a radar observation of an object in outer space is of a known catalogued satellite or of a newly launched satellite. With some radar systems joint or dumbell radar images of two satellites cause occasional confusion, and appropriate decision theory for this situation is derived. Decision theory for the individual image is given in an appendix.     

Nonlinear Filter Evaluation for Estimating Vehicle Position and Velocity Using Satellites

Approximate nonlinear filtering theory is applied to the estimation of vehicle position and velocity in three demensions using sequential range measurements to three known locations. The particular case studied is a satellite air traffic control system which utilizes range measurements to two geostationary satellites and an altitude measurement. Three approximate filters are examined as suboptimal realizations of the minimum-variance filter and simulation results are presented to show that simple first-order approximation is an adequate representation. The parametric relationship between state covariance, measurement noise, vehicle maneuver structure, data rate, and system geometry is presented.