United Nations Human Space Technology Initiative (HSTI)

The Human Space Technology Initiative was launched in 2010 within the framework of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications implemented by the Office for Outer Space Affairs of the United Nations. It aims to involve more countries in activities related to human spaceflight and space exploration and to increase the benefits from the outcome of such activities through international cooperation, to make space exploration a truly international effort.     

Self-perspiration garment for extravehicular activity improves skin cooling effects without raising humidity

Introduction

The current U.S. extravehicular activity (EVA) suit in space includes liquid cooling and ventilation garment (LCVG) to control thermal condition. Tubes knitted in LCVG for flowing water interrupt evaporation of perspiration, and astronauts feel discomfort. In the present study, we hypothesized that a self-perspiration garment would effectively lower the skin temperature without raising humidity in the garment. Thus, we developed and examined the effects of the garment.

Methods

Eight healthy subjects were studied with a cyclic ergometer of 30, 60 90 and 120 W loading for 3 min each. Skin temperature and humidity on the back were measured continuously. Subjects wore and tested three types of garments i.e., a spandex wear without any cooling device (Normal), a simulated LCVG (s-LCVG) or the spandex wear knitted a vinyl tube for flowing water, and the spandex wear with a tube, which flows water and self-perspiration with oozing water for evaporative cooling (SPEC).

Results

All measurements were reached to steady state 2–3 min after the setting. The s-LCVG decreased skin temperature 0.39±0.14 °C during 12 min of cooling. With SPEC, skin temperature did not decrease significantly until 6–9 min after starting the cooling. However, the temperature decreased rapidly and significantly after that, and finally decreased 1.59±0.32 °C. Humidity in the SPEC was significantly lower than that in s-LCVG.

Discussion

SPEC was effective for lowering skin temperature without raising humidity in the garment. The concept is expected to use as a better cooling system during EVA.     

The impact of orbital errors on the estimation of satellite clock errors and PPP

Precise satellite orbit and clocks are essential for providing high accuracy real-time PPP (Precise Point Positioning) service. However, by treating the predicted orbits as fixed, the orbital errors may be partially assimilated by the estimated satellite clock and hence impact the positioning solutions. This paper presents the impact analysis of errors in radial and tangential orbital components on the estimation of satellite clocks and PPP through theoretical study and experimental evaluation. The relationship between the compensation of the orbital errors by the satellite clocks and the satellite-station geometry is discussed in details. Based on the satellite clocks estimated with regional station networks of different sizes (∼100, ∼300, ∼500 and ∼700 km in radius), results indicated that the orbital errors compensated by the satellite clock estimates reduce as the size of the network increases. An interesting regional PPP mode based on the broadcast ephemeris and the corresponding estimated satellite clocks is proposed and evaluated through the numerical study. The impact of orbital errors in the broadcast ephemeris has shown to be negligible for PPP users in a regional network of a radius of ∼300 km, with positioning RMS of about 1.4, 1.4 and 3.7 cm for east, north and up component in the post-mission kinematic mode, comparable with 1.3, 1.3 and 3.6 cm using the precise orbits and the corresponding estimated clocks. Compared with the DGPS and RTK positioning, only the estimated satellite clocks are needed to be disseminated to PPP users for this approach. It can significantly alleviate the communication burdens and therefore can be beneficial to the real time applications.     

Stability of the seasonal variations in diurnal and semidiurnal components of mid-latitude F2 layer parameters

We report work utilizing 15-min resolution ionospheric data obtained with DPS-4 digisonde in 2003–2011 to study the seasonal variations in amplitudes and phases of the most powerful spectral components of the F2 layer critical frequency (foF2) and peak height (hmF2) fluctuations over Irkutsk (52.5°N, 104.0°E). We show that fluctuations of both parameters contain quasi-harmonic components with periods of T_n = 24/n h (n = 1–7). The number of distinct spectral peaks varies from 3 in summer to 7 in winter. Amplitude and phase characteristics of the diurnal (n = 1) and semidiurnal (n = 2) components is studied using the data sets extracted from the original data sets with band-pass filter. It has been found that the amplitudes of diurnal/semidiurnal foF2 and diurnal hmF2 components are maximum in winter and minimum in summer. Amplitudes of the diurnal components vary gradually; those of the foF2 semidiurnal one, abruptly, thus forming a narrow winter maximum in November–January. The phase (local time of maximum) of the diurnal foF2 component increases gradually by 4–6 h from winter to summer. The phase of the semidiurnal foF2 component is nearly stable in winter/summer and sharply decreases (increases) by 2–3 h near the spring (autumn) equinox. The phase of the diurnal component of hmF2 (local time of minimum) varies slightly between 1130 and 1300 LT; that of the semidiurnal one decreases (increases) by 4–6 h from January to March (from September to November). The results obtained show that the main features of seasonal variations in the diurnal and semidiurnal components of the mid-latitude F2 layer parameters recur consistently during the solar activity growth and decline phases.     

Study of Solar Corona in China

Considerable progress for the study of solar corona physics has been achieved by China's space physics community. It involves the theoretical study of coronal process of solar active phenomena, solar wind origin, acceleration of solar wind and coronal mass ejections, observational and numerical study of these problems and prediction methods of solar eruptive activities (such as flares/CMEs). Here is a brief summary of the progress in this area. Main progress is put upon the following three topics: corona and solar wind, numerical method, prediction method.     

扩展的基于角色的访问控制模型

提出了一种扩展的基于角色的访问控制RBAC(Role Based Access Control)模型--RTBAC (Role & Task Based Access Control)模型.该模型在RBAC96模型之上引入了任务和任务实例的概念,形式化地定义了任务和任务实例的层次结构,界定了传统会话同任务实例之间的关系以及任务实例同权限之间的关系,并且提供了几种辅助函数.该模型可以更为自然地描述业务流程和访问控制策略,更适合分布式协作应用,特别是工作流和组合服务.基于该模型定义了一种新的动态职责分离约束--基于任务的动态职责分离约束,并且同传统动态职责分离约束进行了比较.该约束可以更准确地刻画访问控制相关的系统运行时上下文的范围,从而提高运行时访问控制的效率.     

DDN状态监控系统的设计实现

设计实现了一个用于解决DDN（Digital Data Net）网络管理不足之处的新系统——DDN状态监控系统．详细论述了该系统的设寸思路和软件结构,采用了数据库、网络轮询等一系列有效的技术手段来解决DDN网络管理的不足,指出了该系统的技术创新点。     

Unscented Kalman滤波在空间飞行器被动测距中的应用

介绍了Unscented Kalman滤波及其空间飞行器被动测距中的应用。Unscented Kalman滤波通过设计少量的sigma(抽样)点,计算这些点经过非线性函数的传播,获得滤波值基于非线性方程的更新。Unscented Kalman滤波避免了广义Kalman滤波等线性化方法的缺点,并提高了滤波精度。     

一种新型的基于预测的卫星资源分配方法

针对传统的按需分配方式所造成的长时延问题,提出了一种新型的基于业务预测的按需分配方法。该方法通过预测业务在等待队列中的长度,将预测信息发送给网络资源控制中心,再由控制中心动态地分配带宽资源,达到服务质量的要求。在阐述了按需分配和业务预测的基本算法后,通过仿真分析了不同的业务类型采用不同的预测信息发送间隔时间的时延性能,分析中考虑了实时业务比非实时业务享有更高的优先权,并且比较了常规按需分配与基于业务预测的按需系统分配方法的时延性能。仿真结果表明利用业务预测,选择合适的预测信息发送间隔时间,能够有效地改善带宽资源分配的时延性能,相比一般的按需分配方式服务质量有了明显的提高。