面向深空探测的30cm离子推力器寿命预估

为评价30cm离子推力器的寿命,提出了有限寿命考核结合栅极仿真模型的推力器寿命预估方法,利用粒子-蒙特卡洛（PIC-MCC）方法建立了栅孔溅射腐蚀模型,开展了30cm离子推力器寿命预估研究,分析了栅孔刻蚀速率、单孔电场及离子引出特性,给出了30cm推力器寿命预估值。结果表明,栅孔直径仿真与实测值一致性较好,误差在20%以内,基于每个寿命小节栅孔实测值对模型的修正是有效的;根据仿真结果,10000h寿命考核后,减速栅最先失效,30cm离子推力器在最大功率（3kW）工况下预估寿命为37540h,能够满足小天体探测任务对电推进系统的长寿命需求。     

铣槽结构液体火箭发动机推力室壳体热应力分析

介绍了液体火箭发动机推力室铣槽结构热应力的数值分析方法,通过建立液体火箭发动机推力室的流场燃烧和导热理论模型,运用有限体积法考虑液膜冷却计算出发动机工作时的燃气、燃烧室壳体和冷却工质的温度场,将得出的结果作为壳体热应力计算模型的边界条件进行热应力场有限元分析。内、外壁温度的计算数据与实验结果基本相符。     

氙离子推力器束流分布特性研究

建立了离子推力器束流分布的高斯模型,以200mm氙离子推力器为例,在不同工作环境下对推力器束流分布进行了数值模拟,并通过试验测量了推力器引出切面不同位置(轴向z=50mm,z=100mm)下的径向束电流密度和束离子密度分布。通过对数值模拟结果与试验测量结果的比较,误差为17%,认为数值模拟结果与试验测量结果吻合较好。表明离子推力器引出束流呈轴对称分布,在推力器出口附近,束离子密度很大,越往下游,密度越小且束流出现发散。     

超低轨道卫星应用离子电推进技术方案

低地球轨道大气环境对诸如科学探测和对地观测卫星的阻尼作用十分明显,而且阻尼随太阳和地磁活动以及昼夜、季节交替变化范围宽.为了保证卫星轨道精度或飞行状态满足任务要求,需要利用推进系统对卫星受到的阻尼进行实时或间歇式补偿以实现轨道或飞行状态的保持.针对轨道高度220～268 km的无拖曳飞行和轨道维持应用,基于卫星轨道阻尼...     

单推力航天器交会对接轨迹规划及跟踪控制

针对单推力航天器交会对接问题,提出一种轨迹规划及跟踪算法。首先,考虑到追踪航天器只沿本体X轴安装推力器,且推力方向固定,为了实现从起始位置转移至期望位置并满足姿态要求,基于三维螺旋线设计两阶段转移轨迹,根据初末位置以及末端速度方向要求,求解螺旋线参数。该螺旋线可以保证在初末速度方向固定情况下,曲率积分最小。其次,为了降低轨迹跟踪难度并减小初始时刻的位置跟踪控制力,需要将转移轨迹初始速度与追踪星X轴重合。传统螺旋线无法满足该约束条件。本文对传统螺旋线进行改进,提出一种旋转螺旋线轨迹设计方法。通过引入姿态旋转矩阵,将螺旋线在三维空间旋转,在不改变曲线形状的前提下满足初末位置及速度方向要求。然后,为了跟踪转移轨迹以及跟踪期望推力方向,提出基于CLF（Control Lyapunov Function）的滑模控制策略,当追踪星X轴与期望推力方向夹角较大时,采用CLF,保证最优性;当姿态误差收敛至滑模面附近时,切换为滑模控制,以提升系统鲁棒性。最后,通过仿真验证旋转螺旋线相比于传统螺旋线的优势。     

基于发射光谱法的螺旋波电推进器等离子体源放电实验研究

为探究不同气体条件下螺旋波电推进器等离子体源的放电特征,开展了氩气、氦气和氮气放电的光谱诊断实验研究。氩气和氦气为工质气体的放电条件下,部分波长谱线相对强度随功率的增加而增强,且斜率出现两次跳变,考虑是螺旋波放电过程中的模式转换,即容性向感性、感性向波模式的转换。三种工质气体,在较低的压强下,各谱线强度均随压强增大而迅速增强,但氩气放电下压强继续增大达到1.0Pa以后,谱线强度增强趋势变缓甚至达到“饱和”状态,而氦气和氮气放电下压强增大到0.5~0.65Pa,谱线强度出现降低趋势,氦气和氮气放电强度对压强更为敏感。     

Early effects of low dose C ion or X-ray irradiation on human peripheral blood lymphocytes

The aim of this study was to estimate the acute effects of low dose ¹²C⁶⁺ ions or X-ray radiation on human immune function. The human peripheral blood lymphocytes (HPBL) of seven healthy donors were exposed to 0.05 Gy ¹²C⁶⁺ ions or X-ray radiation and cell responses were measured at 24 h after exposure. The cytotoxic activities of HPBL were determined by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT); the percentages of T and NK cells subsets were detected by flow cytometry; mRNA expression of interleukin (IL)-2, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and interferon (IFN)-γ were examined by real time quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR); and these cytokines protein levels in supernatant of cultured cells were assayed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). The results showed that the cytotoxic activity of HPBL, mRNA expression of IL-2, IFN-γ and TNF-α in HPBL and their protein levels in supernatant were significantly increased at 24 h after exposure to 0.05 Gy ¹²C⁶⁺ ions radiation and the effects were stronger than observed for X-ray exposure. However, there was no significant change in the percentage of T and NK cells subsets of HPBL. These results suggested that 0.05 Gy high linear energy transfer (LET) ¹²C⁶⁺ radiation was a more effective approach to host immune enhancement than that of low LET X-ray. We conclude that cytokines production might be used as sensitive indicators of acute response to LDI.     

微波等离子推力器真空实验研究

微波等离子推力器(MPT)具有寿命长、效率高和比冲高的特点，具有广泛的应用前景。通过对MPT真空实验系统，以及中(-lkW)、低(-l00W)功率MPT结构的介绍，重点论述了MPT在真空环境下的启动和稳定工作特性，并对实验结果进行了分析和讨论，给出了MPT初步性能参数。实验结果表明，在30W-lkW功率范围内，MPT真空环境下启动可靠，工作稳定；氦气(He)的比冲远高于氩气(Ar)的比冲。     

Missions to Mercury

Mercury is a very difficult planet to observe from the Earth, and space missions that target Mercury are essential for a comprehensive understanding of the planet. At the same time, it is also difficult to orbit because it is deep inside the Sun’s gravitational well. Only one mission has visited Mercury; that was Mariner 10 in the 1970s. This paper provides a brief history of Mariner 10 and the numerous imaginative but unsuccessful mission proposals since the 1970s for another Mercury mission. In the late 1990s, two missions—MESSENGER and BepiColombo—received the go-ahead; MESSENGER is on its way to its first encounter with Mercury in January 2008. The history, scientific objectives, mission designs, and payloads of both these missions are described in detail.     

Electrolytic Passivation of Nitinol Shape Memory Alloy in Different Electrolytes

The corrosion behavior of the nitinol alloy was studied in various corrosion media of different Cl–ion concentrations. The results demonstrate that the Cl–ion concentration has significant influences on the corrosion behavior of the nitinol alloy. In order to enhance the corrosion resistance, protective films were generated on the surface of the nitinol alloy by means of the electrochemical passivation method, for which five different electrolytic solutions were investigated. The surface analysis indicates full growth of all samples pas-sivated in the different electrolytic solutions with layers, however, showing different morphological features. Without any defects like micro-cracks and pores, the surface of the samples passivated in the molybdate solution turns out smoother and denser than those pas-sivated in other solutions. It is shown that the electro-chemical passivation will reduce Ni content but increase Ti content in the surface, reaching the Mole ratio of Ti:Ni=9.01:1 on the outermost surface. Potentiodynamic polarization test demonstrates that the samples electrochemically passivated in the molybdate solution present a significant increase in breakdown potential due to titanium enrichment on the outermost surface.