用于通信技术卫星(CTS)带有隔离式引发系统的高性能远地点发动机的设计、研制和试验

加拿大电信局和美国宇航局(NASA)联合研制的通信技术卫星(以下简称 CTS)将于1975年下半年发射。为这一卫星研制的远地点发动机代表了远地点发动机技术中新的发展方向。钛合金壳体、88%固体含量的端羧基聚丁二烯推进剂和轻质喷管使这一发动机获得高性能指标。由于采用隔离式安全发火装置减轻了重量并简化了总体布局。装有远地点发动机的卫星的大量试验,在研制计划初期就已提供了许多必需的数据,以便及时地提供一个可靠的卫星。     

A new application of LBNP to measure orthostatic tolerance before and after 0-g simulation (water immersion)

Lower body negative pressure (LBNP) remains an important device for the generation of orthostatic stress in the space flight environment as well as a tool to measure inflight and postflight changes in orthostatic response.

These applied levels of LBNP have typically not exceeded 50–60 mm Hg negative pressure. Information is incomplete as to the levels of absolute LBNP orthostatic tolerance, and the factors responsible for their variance. A better definition of the tolerance limits for males and females could be expected to aid the evaluation of lower levels of LBNP.

An LBNP device was built to study absolute orthostatic tolerance; additionally, another LBNP device was constructed to permit orthostatic tolerance testing directly after a controlled water immersion period.

Absolute LBNP orthostatic tolerance patterns are analyzed for a group of males and females (series I). A preliminary statement on the variations of LBNP orthostatic tolerance after limited periods of water immersion and bed rest is also provided (series II).     

Home sweet orbital home

The design of Space Station Freedom is discussed, with an emphasis on the measures taken to ensure the morale and productivity of the inhabitants. Special efforts have been taken to design the station with creature comforts of Earth, such as better food preparation and hygiene equipment than is found in current or past spacecraft. The galley for food storage and preparation is described, as are the shower and laundry facilities. Designers of the space station hope to ensure astronaut mental health and productivity by supplying them with a current working and living space.     

通过电视直播卫星和导航技术卫星进行时间频率比对

本文介绍了通过中型实验直抪卫星(BSE)进行时频抪送的初步实验结果,以及通过导航技术卫星(NTS—1)进行国际时间传递的结果。利用实验直抪卫星BSE作了时/频抪送的初步实验。该卫星的下行线路为12千兆赫,上行线路为14千兆赫。对接收到的电视付载波频率进行了测(旦力),其(矢卜)期(禾文)定度与地西广抪电视系统中的一样好,即σ_y,(10秒)=3×10_(-11)。为了确定一种多卜勒频移抵消技术,试验了以下几种方法,即包括卫星线路在内的相位控制伺服、利用测(旦力)值控制的频率预补偿以及利用卫星轨道数据的频率预补偿技术。利用第一种和第二种方法,控制站上残畄多卜勒频移(旦力)低于1×10~(-12)。利用轨道数据的方法估计能控制到几×10(-11)。所以,如不加任何修正,在日本最远点上的最大多卜勒残值估计为±2×10(-10)。至于时间比对,目前正在进行。在美国航空航天局哥达德中心和海军研究所的支助下,自1978年10月以来,利用NTS—1卫星进行了大约一年的国际时间比对实验。UTC_((USNO))和UTC_((RRL))(美国海军天文台和日本无线电研究所的标准时间之间的时差数据与美国海军天文台搬运钟的数据十分相符。利用Bent研究的模型修正电离层延时后,该数据的标准偏差可减小一半。     

自动液氮加注系统

大量的光谱学的实验和其它物理测量必须在持续一段时间的液氮温度中进行。从最简单的杜瓦瓶到精心制做的自动冷却剂流体     

冲压发动机试验和模拟技术

模拟冲压发动机工作状态的流动条件需要独特的地面试验能力、暂冲式吹风试车台是一个经济设备,它能满足高流量和高压力比的要求。污染空气加热器提供了一种灵活而廉价的模拟弹道温度变化的有效方法。自由射流试验中,适当地模拟进口流动条件对发动机研制起着很重要的作用。本文讨论了冲压发动机地面试验要求,评论了直联式与自由射流的试验中模拟可用参数的方法,描述了满足气动模拟要求的技术与设备,并已证实是有效的。     

高压气动逻辑

引言“气动逻辑”能以多种形式和用普通原理来实现。“气动逻辑”是通过使用压缩空气而不是电作为动力,为工厂和设备提供类似继电器或固体电子逻辑的顺序闭锁和控制功能。“逻辑”要涉及到器件预先规定的操作和将闭锁线路表示为“逻辑图”的绘图习惯和符号。1.历史和发展逻辑线路曾用传统的运动充气组件(通常是与空气压缩设备相连的短管阀)组成,但这样的组件有很多的缺点,如:     

Attitude control of multi-spacecraft systems on SO(3) with stochastic links failure

In this paper, for Multi-Spacecraft System(MSS) with a directed communication topology link and a static virtual leader, a controller is proposed to realize attitude consensus and attitude stabilization with stochastic links failure and actuator saturation. First, an MSS attitude error model suitable for a directed topology link and with a static virtual leader based on SO(3) is derived, which considers that the attitude error on SO(3) cannot be defined based on algebraic subtraction. Then, we d...     

M stars as targets for terrestrial exoplanet searches and biosignature detection

The changing view of planets orbiting low mass stars, M stars, as potentially hospitable worlds for life and its remote detection was motivated by several factors, including the demonstration of viable atmospheres and oceans on tidally locked planets, normal incidence of dust disks, including debris disks, detection of planets with masses in the 5-20 M() range, and predictions of unusually strong spectral biosignatures. We present a critical discussion of M star properties that are relevant for the long- and short-term thermal, dynamical, geological, and environmental stability of conventional liquid water habitable zone (HZ) M star planets, and the advantages and disadvantages of M stars as targets in searches for terrestrial HZ planets using various detection techniques. Biological viability seems supported by unmatched very long-term stability conferred by tidal locking, small HZ size, an apparent short-fall of gas giant planet perturbers, immunity to large astrosphere compressions, and several other factors, assuming incidence and evolutionary rate of life benefit from lack of variability. Tectonic regulation of climate and dynamo generation of a protective magnetic field, especially for a planet in synchronous rotation, are important unresolved questions that must await improved geodynamic models, though they both probably impose constraints on the planet mass. M star HZ terrestrial planets must survive a number of early trials in order to enjoy their many Gyr of stability. Their formation may be jeopardized by an insufficient initial disk supply of solids, resulting in the formation of objects too small and/or dry for habitability. The small empirical gas giant fraction for M stars reduces the risk of formation suppression or orbit disruption from either migrating or nonmigrating giant planets, but effects of perturbations from lower mass planets in these systems are uncertain. During the first approximately 1 Gyr, atmospheric retention is at peril because of intense and frequent stellar flares and sporadic energetic particle events, and impact erosion, both enhanced, the former dramatically, for M star HZ semimajor axes. Loss of atmosphere by interactions with energetic particles is likely unless the planetary magnetic moment is sufficiently large. For the smallest stellar masses a period of high planetary surface temperature, while the parent star approaches the main sequence, must be endured. The formation and retention of a thick atmosphere and a strong magnetic field as buffers for a sufficiently massive planet emerge as prerequisites for an M star planet to enter a long period of stability with its habitability intact. However, the star will then be subjected to short-term fluctuations with consequences including frequent unpredictable variation in atmospheric chemistry and surficial radiation field. After a review of evidence concerning disks and planets associated with M stars, we evaluate M stars as targets for future HZ planet search programs. Strong advantages of M stars for most approaches to HZ detection are offset by their faintness, leading to severe constraints due to accessible sample size, stellar crowding (transits), or angular size of the HZ (direct imaging). Gravitational lensing is unlikely to detect HZ M star planets because the HZ size decreases with mass faster than the Einstein ring size to which the method is sensitive. M star Earth-twin planets are predicted to exhibit surprisingly strong bands of nitrous oxide, methyl chloride, and methane, and work on signatures for other climate categories is summarized. The rest of the paper is devoted to an examination of evidence and implications of the unusual radiation and particle environments for atmospheric chemistry and surface radiation doses, and is summarized in the Synopsis. We conclude that attempts at remote sensing of biosignatures and nonbiological markers from M star planets are important, not as tests of any quantitative theories or rational arguments, but instead because they offer an inspection of the residues from a Gyr-long biochemistry experiment in the presence of extreme environmental fluctuations. A detection or repeated nondetections could provide a unique opportunity to partially answer a fundamental and recurrent question about the relation between stability and complexity, one that is not addressed by remote detection from a planet orbiting a solar-like star, and can only be studied on Earth using restricted microbial systems in serial evolution experiments or in artificial life simulations. This proposal requires a planet that has retained its atmosphere and a water supply. The discussion given here suggests that observations of M star exoplanets can decide this latter question with only slight modifications to plans already in place for direct imaging terrestrial exoplanet missions.     

Hydrothermal systems in small ocean planets

We examine means for driving hydrothermal activity in extraterrestrial oceans on planets and satellites of less than one Earth mass, with implications for sustaining a low level of biological activity over geological timescales. Assuming ocean planets have olivine-dominated lithospheres, a model for cooling-induced thermal cracking shows how variation in planet size and internal thermal energy may drive variation in the dominant type of hydrothermal system-for example, high or low temperature system or chemically driven system. As radiogenic heating diminishes over time, progressive exposure of new rock continues to the current epoch. Where fluid-rock interactions propagate slowly into a deep brittle layer, thermal energy from serpentinization may be the primary cause of hydrothermal activity in small ocean planets. We show that the time-varying hydrostatic head of a tidally forced ice shell may drive hydrothermal fluid flow through the seafloor, which can generate moderate but potentially important heat through viscous interaction with the matrix of porous seafloor rock. Considering all presently known potential ocean planets-Mars, a number of icy satellites, Pluto, and other trans-neptunian objects-and applying Earth-like material properties and cooling rates, we find depths of circulation are more than an order of magnitude greater than in Earth. In Europa and Enceladus, tidal flexing may drive hydrothermal circulation and, in Europa, may generate heat on the same order as present-day radiogenic heat flux at Earth's surface. In all objects, progressive serpentinization generates heat on a globally averaged basis at a fraction of a percent of present-day radiogenic heating and hydrogen is produced at rates between 10(9) and 10(10) molecules cm(2) s(1).