Asteroid interception and disruption for terminal planetary defense

Modern techniques for planetary defense from comets and asteroids involve the deflection of the bolide via kinetic, gravitational, ablative, or radiative means. While potentially effective, none of these methods are capable of operating in a terminal interdiction mode wherethe threat is discovered with little time prior to impact. We present a practical and effective method for planetary defense which enables extremely short interdiction time scales, but can also operate within longer time scales and can be effective for extremely large threats. Called PI (“Pulverize It”), the method makes use of an array of hypervelocity penetrators which uses the kinetic energy of the asteroid or comet to disrupt it. In the terminal interdiction mode, the fragments of maximum $～10$ m diameter disperse laterally as they continue towards the Earth, and then enter the Earth’s atmosphere where they burn up as a series of airburst events which spatially and temporally de-correlate the energy of the original parent bolide for any arbitrary observer on the ground in the form of acoustical shockwaves and optical pulses. We show that terminal interdiction modes ranging from 2 minutes prior to impact for 20-meter class bolides (such as the Chelyabinsk asteroid), 1 day prior to impact for 100 m-class asteroids, 10 days prior to impact for Apophis-class asteroids ($～370$ m), and even 60 days prior to impact for 1 km-class threats are all possible, though longer warning times are always preferred. Using only technologies readily available today, the PI method allows for a cost-effective and practical roadmap towards robust planetary defense capability.     

基于自适应KF动态虚拟陀螺数据融合算法的研究

微机电系统(MEMS)陀螺与光纤陀螺相比，传感器的精度较低。为了提高MEMS陀螺的精度，通过组合多个相同陀螺实现虚拟陀螺的功能，同时提高虚拟陀螺的静态和动态性能。通过分析陀螺的Allan方差，并考虑陀螺之间的相关性，建立陀螺的测量模型;使用自回归(AR)模型建立预测模型，对卡尔曼滤波(KF)算法进行优化;搭建多MEMS陀螺仪硬件平台，获取数据并实时计算，融合多陀螺数据输出最优估计值，使用高精度转台分别在静态和动态条件下测试滤波效果。实验结果表明:静态条件下虚拟陀螺误差的方差可降低为单个陀螺的1/94，动态条件下降低为单个陀螺的1/18。基于自适应KF的虚拟陀螺可以显著提高精度。     

SHAKING: Adjusted spherical harmonics adding KrigING method for near real-time ionospheric modeling with multi-GNSS observations

Precise positioning based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technique requires high accuracy ionospheric total electron content (TEC) correction models to account for the ionospheric path delay errors. We present an adjusted Spherical Harmonics Adding KrigING method (SHAKING) approach for regional ionospheric vertical TEC (VTEC) modeling in real time. In the proposed SHAKING method, the VTEC information over the sparse observation data area is extrapolated by the Adjusted Spherical Harmonic (ASH) function, and the boundary distortion in regional VTEC modeling is corrected by the stochastic VTEC estimated using Kriging interpolation. Using real-time GPS, GLONASS and BDS-2/3 data streams of the Crust Movement Observation Network of China (CMONOC), the SHAKING-based regional ionospheric VTEC maps are re-constructed over China and its boundary regions. Compared to GNSS VTECs derived from the independent stations, the quality of SHAKING solution improves by 13–31% and 6–33% with respect to the ASH-only solution during high and low geomagnetic periods, respectively. Compared to the inverse distance weighting (IDW) generated result, significant quality improved of SHAKING-based VTEC maps is also observed, especially over the edge areas with an improvement of 60–80%. Overall, the proposed SHAKING method exhibits notable advantage over the existing regional VTEC modeling techniques, which can be used for regional TEC modeling and associated high-precision positioning applications.     

临近空间高超声速稀薄流中梯形缝隙绕流分析

针对高超声速飞行器表面不规则缝隙的构型特征，将其简化为梯形缝隙模型；采用直接模拟蒙特卡洛(DSMC)方法对高超声速稀薄流中的缝隙绕流问题进行数值模拟；研究了不同的缝隙壁面倾角对流场结构以及壁面参数的影响，为航天器结构设计以及热防护设计提供了数值支持。结果表明：改变倾角会改变流场结构，当倾角减小时，外部流场会更深入缝隙内部，使得缝隙内流场和表面的气动参数增强，且倾角越小，影响的程度越深。同时，倾角减小也会减小缝隙内的旋涡强度，当倾角小于30°时，缝隙内的旋涡区域完全消失。     

面向有效载荷的准实时在轨健康评估系统

卫星遥测数据通常有2种手段获得，一种是卫星经过地面测控站下传的实时遥测和延时遥测;另一种手段是通过数传分系统下传的全球遥测。全球遥测作为监视卫星载荷健康状态的主要手段，存在数据量大、文件数量较多、人工处理和判读工作量大等问题。针对该情况，提出准实时在轨健康监视系统的设计方案。该系统具备遥测源码定时获取、有效载荷遥测数据提取和解析、遥测数据存储、遥测数据自动判读和特征统计、超限报警、曲线显示和数据输出等功能，可对卫星有效载荷的健康状态进行准实时、自动化的监视和评估。