欧空局OPSNET通信网新进展

为了支持我国航天测控通信网的IP(互联网协议)化以及未来发展,对欧空局的航天任务操作通信网OPSNET(操作支持通信网)的新进展进行了研究。首先回顾了OPSNET网络发展历程中的里程碑事件(完成网络IP化,调整网络拓扑结构,通过载荷分担模式超越网络链路的带宽极限),之后介绍了该网络面临的高数据速率挑战及多个备选解决方案,详细介绍了最终选用的基于MPLS(多协议标签交换)技术的网络设计。OPSNET网络向MPLS迁移的方案经实验室环境验证后分步实施,经多个层面的验证及实际运行证明,采用MPLS技术后,以较低的成本实现了很好的网络性能。未来OPSNET将以此为基础部署更多的MPLS链路,并可能增加加密业务。OPSNET通信网的新进展值得我们关注和借鉴。     

French research program on the physiological problems caused by weightlessness. Use of the primate model

The need to acquire a better knowledge of the main biological problems induced by microgravity implies--in addition to human experimentation--the use of animal models, and primates seem to be particularly well adapted to this type of research. The major areas of investigation to be considered are the phospho-calcium metabolism and the metabolism of supporting tissues, the hydroelectrolytic metabolism, the cardiovascular function, awakeness, sleep-awakeness cycles, the physiology of equilibrium and the pathophysiology of space sickness. Considering this program, the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de Medecine Aerospatiale, under the sponsorship of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, developed both a program of research on restrained primates for the French-U.S. space cooperation (Spacelab program) and for the French-Soviet space cooperation (Bio-cosmos program), and simulation of the effects of microgravity by head-down bedrest. Its major characteristics are discussed in the study.     

NASA月球激光通信演示验证试验

为满足日益增长的大数据量、高数据速率传输要求,NASA(National Aeronautics and Space Administration,美国国家航空航天局)正开启采用激光技术进行空间通信的新时代,并于近年相继开展了多项自由空间激光通信技术研究项目。针对该情况,重点介绍LLCD(Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration,月球激光通信演示验证)项目的系统组成和工作状况:该项目由NASA实施,首次采用激光作为载波在绕月飞行器和地面接收机之间进行双向激光通信,通过飞行演示验证了下行速率为622 Mbit/s和上行速率为20 Mbit/s的月地双向空间激光通信,以及端到端DTN(Delay Tolerant Networking,容延迟网络)数据传输,并验证了作为激光通信链路副产品的高精度测距技术,试验成果超出预期。最后展望LLCD后续发展,供我国相关研究工作参考借鉴。     

未来机载雷达可靠性和寿命周期成本的研究

目前还没有对未来机载雷达系统的可靠性和维修性的要求充分量化，但已经认识到需要对现有可靠性和可用性的标准进行较大的改进。     

波音757投入使用

英国航空公司和东方航空公司两家宣布合买大约四十架波音757的意图只不过是四年半之前的事。今天,这一新型窄体波音即将载运旅客,开始赢利了。回顾1978年,各家航空公司都在乐其所哉,无须费力便可以赚到钱。偏在这个时候,听说波音公司一半因为揽到一纸国外订货单,又有英国人提供发动机,就要投建一种新型客机,人们都无法置信。     

Artificial gravity: a possible countermeasure for post-flight orthostatic intolerance

Four payload crewmembers were exposed to sustained linear acceleration in a centrifuge during the Neurolab (STS-90) flight. In contrast to previous studies, otolith–ocular reflexes were preserved during and after flight. This raised the possibility that artificial gravity may have acted as a countermeasure to the deconditioning of otolith–ocular reflexes. None of the astronauts who were centrifuged had orthostatic intolerance when tested with head-up passive tilt after flight. Thus, centrifugation may also have helped maintain post-flight hemodynamic responses to orthostasis by preserving the gain of the otolith–sympathetic reflex. A comparison with two fellow Neurolab orbiter crewmembers not exposed to artificial gravity provided some support for this hypothesis. One of the two had hemodynamic changes in response to post-flight tilt similar to orthostatically intolerant subjects from previous missions. More data is necessary to evaluate this hypothesis, but if it were proven correct, in-flight short-radius centrifugation may help counteract orthostatic intolerance after space flight.     

COSAC onboard Rosetta: a bioastronomy experiment for the short-period comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

The COSAC (Cometary Sampling and Composition Experiment) onboard the Rosetta mission is a combined gas chromatograph (GC)-mass spectrometer (MS). It is situated on Philae, the lander of the mission, which is intended to land on the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov- Gerasimenko. The purpose of the experiment is to analyze the volatile fraction of soil samples retrieved by a drill. For investigation, the samples will be pyrolysed, and the emanating gases fed into a GC, into an MS, or the combination of both. In the first part of this paper, the bioastronomical relevance of such measurements is outlined. In the second part the details of the hardware and its performance are described.