Quality assessment of sub-Nyquist recovery from future gravity satellite missions

Drawing on experience from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) data analysis, the scientific challenges were already identified in several studies. Any future mission should focus on improvement in both precision and resolution in space and time. For future gravity missions which use high quality sensors, aliasing of high frequency time-variable geophysical signals to the lower frequency signals is one of the most serious problems. The aliasing problem and the spatio-temporal resolution are mainly restricted by two sampling theorems describing the space-time sampling of satellite missions: (i) a Heisenberg-like uncertainty theorem which states that the product of spatial resolution and time resolution is constant, and (ii) the Colombo–Nyquist rule (CNR), which requires the number of satellite revolutions in a repeat period to be at least twice a given maximum spherical harmonic degree. The CNR holds under the assumption of equal ground-track spacing, and limits the spatial resolution of the gravity solution.     

Oxygen concentration variation in ullage influenced by dissolved oxygen evolution

To determine the oxygen concentration variation in ullage that results from dissolved oxygen evolution in an inert aircraft fuel tank, the CFD method with a mass transfer source is applied in the present study. An experimental system is also designed to evaluate the accuracy of the CFD simulations. The dissolved oxygen evolution is simulated under different conditions of fuel load and initial oxygen concentration in ullage of an inert fuel tank with stimulations of heating and pressure decrease. The increase in the oxygen concentration in ullage ranges from 0.82% to 5.92% upon stimulation of heating and from 0.735% to 12.36% upon stimulation of a pressure decrease for an inert ullage in the simulations. The heating accelerates the release of the dissolved oxygen from the fuel by increasing the mass transfer rate in the mass transfer source and decreasing the pressure, thereby accelerating the dissolved oxygen evolution by increasing the concentration difference between the gas and the fuel. The time constant that represents the oxygen evolution rate is independent of the initial oxygen concentration in ullage of an inert tank but depends closely on the fuel load, temperature and pressure. The time constant can be fitted using a polynomial equation relating the fuel load to temperature in the heating stimulation with an accuracy of 4.77%. Upon stimulation of a pressure decrease, the time constant can be expressed in terms of the fuel load and the pressure, with an accuracy of 5.02%.     

基于傅里叶展开的电动力绳系卫星最优控制

电动力绳系卫星的推力幅值较小且方向固定,完成轨道机动任务的周期长,其最优控制问题的求解比较困难.采用在傅里叶空间描述的轨道动力学模型,将控制量电流表示为傅里叶级数的形式,并推导了用傅里叶系数作为参量的椭圆轨道运动的平均轨道根数方程.在此基础上构造了电动力绳系卫星轨道机动的最优控制模型,通过直接配置法将其转化为非线性规划...     

航天器再生伪码测距体制分析

再生伪码测距体制通过对上行伪码测距信号进行恢复,并重新调制到下行载波发送,可以获得可观的测距信号信噪比增益。对这部分增益的合理使用,可以获得较高的测距精度,也可以获得较短的测距时间,还可以提高遥测信号的功率。本文从测距码、捕获时间以及测距信号与遥控/遥测信号之间的相互干扰3方面介绍了再生伪码测距体制。     

Turbo码块同步参数优化设计

在信道码码块同步技术研究的基础上,针对CCSDS(空间数据系统咨询委员会)建议规定的Turbo码,为不同码块长度、不同编码效率的Turbo码设计一组最佳同步参数,以最优化平均入锁时间和数据有效率。利用理论推导出的解析公式,计算不同参数下的平均入锁时间和数据有效率,从而优选出最佳同步参数,并归纳总结最佳同步参数的特点。本文得到的同步参数可为实际工程提供参考。     

长波授时附加二次相位因子修正方法

附加二次相位因子（ASF）是影响长波授时精度的主要因素,而其理论计算复杂、实测成本太高,不便于工程推广。本文选取华北平原区域为研究范围,提出一种简单高效的ASF修正方法———建立对应的ASF数据网格,采用插值算法进行ASF修正研究。通过对ASF数据网格的验证和分析,得到了和预期效果相一致的实验结果。实验结果表明：建立区域性的ASF数据网格有利于快速地修正ASF误差,便于实际工程应用。     

GNSS geodetic techniques for time and frequency transfer applications

We performed an initial analysis of the pseudorange data of the GIOVE-B satellite, one of the two experimental Galileo satellites currently in operation, for time transfer.¹ For this specific aim, software was developed to process the GIOVE-B raw pseudoranges and broadcast navigation messages collected by the Galileo Experimental Sensor Stations (GESS) tracking network, yielding station clock phase errors with respect to the Experimental Galileo System Time (EGST). The software also allows processing the Global Positioning System (GPS) P1 and P2 pseudorange data with broadcast navigation message collected at the same stations to obtain the station clock phase errors with respect to the GPS system time (GPST). Differencing these solutions between stations provides two independent means of GNSS time transfer. We compared these time transfer results with Precise Point Positioning (PPP) method applied to GPS data in combined carrier-phase and pseudorange mode as well as in pseudorange-only mode to show their relative merits. The PPP solutions in combined carrier-phase and pseudorange mode showed the least instability of the methods tested herein at all scales, at few parts in 10¹⁵ at 1 day for the stations processed, following a tau^−½ interval dependency. Conversely, the PPP solutions in pseudorange-only mode are an order of magnitude worst (few parts in 10¹⁴ at 1 day for the stations processed) following a tau⁻¹ power-law, but slightly better than the single-satellite raw GPS time transfer solutions obtained using the developed software, since the PPP least-squares solution effectively averages the pseudorange noise. The pseudorange noise levels estimated from PPP pseudorange residuals and from clock solution comparisons are largely consistent, providing a validation of our software operation. The raw GIOVE-B time transfer, as implemented in this work, proves to be slightly better than single-satellite raw GPS satellite time transfer, at least in the medium term. However, one of the processed stations shows a combined GPS P1 and P2 pseudorange noise level at 2 m, a factor 2 worst than usually seen for geodetic receivers, so the GPS time transfer results may not be at their best for the cases processed. Over the short term, the GPS single-satellite time transfer instability outperforms the GIOVE-B by an order of magnitude at 1 s interval, which would be due to the different characteristics of the tracking loop filters for GPS P1 and P2 on one hand and the GIOVE-B signals on the other. Even at this preliminary stage and using an experimental satellite system, results show that the GIOVE-B (and hence Galileo) signals offer interesting perspectives for high precision time transfer between metrological laboratories.     

Empirical model of the TEC response to the geomagnetic activity over the North American region

The paper presents an empirical model of the total electron content (TEC) response to the geomagnetic activity described by the K_p-index. The model is built on the basis of TEC measurements covering the region of North America (50°W–150°W, 10°N–60°N) for the period of time between October 2004 and December 2009. By using a 2D (latitude-time) cross-correlation analysis it is found that the ionospheric response to the geomagnetic activity over the considered geographic region and at low solar activity revealed both positive and negative phases of response. The both phases of the ionospheric response have different duration and time delay with respect to the geomagnetic storm. It was found that these two parameters of the ionospheric response depend on the season and geographical latitude. The presence of two phases, positive and negative, of the ionospheric response imposed the implementation of two different time delay constants in order to properly describe the two different delayed reactions. The seasonal dependence of the TEC response to geomagnetic storms is characterized by predominantly positive response in winter with a short (usually ∼5–6 h) time delay as well as mainly negative response in summer with a long (larger than 15 h) time delay. While the TEC response in March and October is more close to the winter one the response in April and September is similar to the summer one.     

脉冲星时间尺度的相关研究

在已有脉冲星时频率稳定度σZ算法基础上,提出了针对长时间跨度计时观测数据缺失（gap）的脉冲星时稳定度的处理方法,并以该类典型的脉冲星J1857＋0943于帕克斯天文台PARKES的实测数据为例,给出稳定度计算结果并讨论,简介了计时软件包Tempo2得到最小残差的拟合过程,并以Tempo2处理后的数据作为输入,由其时间尺度结果引发对Tempo2处理脉冲星时间尺度的相关分析与讨论,介绍了含gap的脉冲星观测数据在综合脉冲星时算法中的应用。     

弹道导弹中段机动突防制导误差修正方法

针对弹道导弹中段反拦截实时机动突防带来的参数偏差问题,给出了在地球非球形摄动影响下的位置和速度偏差量的计算方法,采用改进的fg级数和预测制导方法获得了机动推力的作用方向及发动机的开启时间,并对再入点误差进行了修正。仿真结果表明,采用该方法可有效地修正因机动突防与地球扁率而引起的再入点参数误差,为末制导系统的工作提供了良...