Deep Impact: A Large-Scale Active Experiment on a Cometary Nucleus

The Deep Impact mission will provide the first data on the interior of a cometary nucleus and a comparison of those data with data on the surface. Two spacecraft, an impactor and a flyby spacecraft, will arrive at comet 9P/Tempel 1 on 4 July 2005 to create and observe the formation and final properties of a large crater that is predicted to be approximately 30-m deep with the dimensions of a football stadium. The flyby and impactor instruments will yield images and near infrared spectra (1–5 μm) of the surface at unprecedented spatial resolutions both before and after the impact of a 350-kg spacecraft at 10.2 km/s. These data will provide unique information on the structure of the nucleus near the surface and its chemical composition. They will also used to interpret the evolutionary effects on remote sensing data and will indicate how those data can be used to better constrain conditions in the early solar system.     

Analytical parametric identification in dynamic wind-tunnel tests

The dynamic wind-tunnel tests of a functional model of a flight vehicle being developed make it possible to obtain more reliable data on aerodynamic and structural characteristics and, hence, improve the design quality and increase reliability in the finished product operation. The objective stated is achieved by formation of angular model motions, the parameters of which are measured and compared with angular parameters calculated using the analytical solutions of differential equations of motions being formed. We considered two media of the incoming flow with the resistance proportional to speed and the square of speed. The results can be used in flight vehicle design, development of onboard control algorithms and subsequent identification of other parameters.     

一种视频SAR运动目标成像算法

视频合成孔径雷达ViSAR(Video Synthetic Aperture Radar)成像模式与传统SAR成像模式不同,此模式需要持续监测目标区域.通过子孔径划分的方法将目标区域的回波划分孔径,然后针对每一个划分后的子孔径进行单独成像和配准,最后把每一帧图像进行处理形成视频,利用序列图像形成的视频去提取目标的运动信...     

The GOES-16 Spacecraft Science Magnetometer

Space Science Reviews - The Modular Multispectral Imaging Array (MMIA) is a suite of optical sensors mounted on an external platform of the European Space Agency’s Columbus Module on the...     

扩频测控信号大动态信息高精度加载方法

针对静态扩频测控信号的大动态信息加载问题,提出了一种基于数字化处理的高精度时域加载方法。该方法对测距扩频码采用"存储—内插—查表—抽取"的方式加入动态信息,对载波采用调整幅度变化的方式加入动态信息。最后对该方法进行综合仿真:即用高精度时域加载方法得到的载波信号重新调制测距扩频码,得到含有动态信息的数字信号。仿真分析表明,该方法能在不改变原始信号采样率的前提下,实现扩频测控信号大动态信息高精度加载。     

基于多级等压混合的引射器参数匹配与优化

匹配和优化多级等压混合引射器的各项参数,得到理想的引射器增压比和引射效率,目的是提高多级等压混合引射器性能。通过数学分析和实验,研究了单级引射器参数变化对性能的影响,明确了多级等压混合引射器级数的确定原则,对影响单级引射器性能的参数在多级中进行了匹配和优化,表明引射马赫数、被引射气体温度、单级引射器引射系数和增压比匹配与优化后,能显著提升多级等压混合引射器性能。     

Alice: The rosetta Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph

We describe the design, performance and scientific objectives of the NASA-funded ALICE instrument aboard the ESA Rosetta asteroid flyby/comet rendezvous mission. ALICE is a lightweight, low-power, and low-cost imaging spectrograph optimized for cometary far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectroscopy. It will be the first UV spectrograph to study a comet at close range. It is designed to obtain spatially-resolved spectra of Rosetta mission targets in the 700–2050 Å spectral band with a spectral resolution between 8 Å and 12 Å for extended sources that fill its ～0.05^ × 6.0^ field-of-view. ALICE employs an off-axis telescope feeding a 0.15-m normal incidence Rowland circle spectrograph with a toroidal concave holographic reflection grating. The microchannel plate detector utilizes dual solar-blind opaque photocathodes (KBr and CsI) and employs a two-dimensional delay-line readout array. The instrument is controlled by an internal microprocessor. During the prime Rosetta mission, ALICE will characterize comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's coma, its nucleus, and nucleus/coma coupling; during cruise to the comet, ALICE will make observations of the mission's two asteroid flyby targets and of Mars, its moons, and of Earth's moon. ALICE has already successfully completed the in-flight commissioning phase and is operating well in flight. It has been characterized in flight with stellar flux calibrations, observations of the Moon during the first Earth fly-by, and observations of comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) in 2004 and comet 9P/Tempel 1 during the 2005 Deep Impact comet-collision observing campaign.     

Numerical analysis of the coefficients of temperature restitution and heat transfer in a turbulent dispersed flow

A technique is proposed and the results of the numerical investigation of the coefficients of temperature restitution and heat transfer on the surface streamlined by a turbulent dispersed flow are presented. The calculation data given involve that the coefficients of temperature restitution and heat transfer of the dispersed flow are significantly dependent on the nature of relative phase motion (with or without directional transverse particle displacement in the boundary layer), on the phase slip coefficients, and on the intensity of internal sources of heat and momentum in the boundary layer of the carrying medium.     

Investigation of turbulence influence on the particle resistance in a two-phase flow

The results of studying the resistance of a regular spherical particle lattice by means of the ANSYS/FLOTRAN software are presented; the lattice is streamlined by a turbulent incompressible flow at different values of the Re number and turbulence parameters. It is shown that the interference of neighboring particles and their resistance coefficients is unsymmetrical. A phenomenon of a significant influence of local turbulence parameters (scale and intensity) on the single particle resistance is described.     

Control of complex nonlinear vibrations of sandwich beams

Complex vibrations of the Bernoulli-Euler sandwich beams are considered. The solution is performed by the numerical methods of finite elements in the Bubnov-Galerkin form and finite differences of the second order of accuracy. The approaches for control of chaotic vibrations in the Bernoulli-Euler sandwich beams are proposed.