固体运载器在航天领域的地位及作用

结合我国固体发动机的实际水平，讨论了发展上型固体运载器的现实性，可行性以及可达到的运载能力，并根据当前世界空间技术发展动态，简述了固体技术在我国航天领域的地位及作用。     

用非结构直角网格和欧拉方程计算运载火箭绕流

采用八叉树结构，物面附近用投影法，生成运载火箭绕流计算的非结构直角网格。并将Jameson的有限体积法推广用于这种网格的欧拉方程计算。算例表明，网格生成的时机化费很少，质量好；欧拉方程解算的收敛质量也好。     

苏联(俄罗斯)载人航天器的发展史实

介绍了苏联（俄罗斯）各种载人航天器的研制、试验和使用情况。     

International cooperation and competition in civilian space activities

This article considers how the USA can best maintain its commercial and governmental competitiveness in space, while facilitating private investment and international marketing, and at the same time keeping up significant cooperation with other nations. The current state of US civilian space activities in each of these areas is summarized, and several alternative solutions are presented. The article concludes that strengthening US competition with other space-capable nations, and improving US ability to cooperate effectively, will require careful coordination of the activities of federal agencies with each other and with the private sector.     

Arms control and disarmament in space: the rough road to Vienna 1984: Part I

This article examines the international legal and diplomatic questions relating to arms control and disarmament, focusing on space-based activities. These relate importantly to the development of anti-satellite satellites (ASATs) and ballistic missile defence systems (BMDs). Part I of the article examines the goal of ‘peaceful uses’ of outer space as elaborated in national policies and in international fora, the debate that has has taken place at the international level over the meaning and definition of peaceful purposes, legal manoeuvres, particularly in the UN, and US responses, and recent Soviet initiatives relating to space militarization. Part II will appear in the next issue, and will consider the US Presidential-Congressional dialogue on these questions and recent Presidential initiatives.     

推进剂稳态燃速最优化辨识

考虑侵蚀燃烧对推进剂稳态燃速的影响,将推进剂稳态燃速模型参数辨识问题转化为非线性规划问题求解。采用Powell方法和并行遗传算法组成的混合优化方法,提高了非线性规划问题求解的效率和质量,得到了推进剂稳态燃速模型参数的全局最优辨识值。通过对设计空间的可视化进行优化收敛过程的参数分析,近似得到侵蚀燃烧模型参数的不确定性区间。     

行星际空间环境对探测器可靠性影响分析

空间环境是影响航天器可靠性的重要因素。与地球轨道航天器相比,行星际探测任务可能会遭受更加恶劣的空间环境,例如极端温度环境,辐射环境,腐蚀性大气环境、宇宙尘等,再加上行星际任务寿命长,采用先进的器件和材料,空间环境对行星际探测器的可靠性构成严重的威胁,直接关系到探测目标能否实现。因此考虑空间环境对行星际探测器的影响,开展相关的预先研究无论是对于制定行星际空间探测计划,还是搭载仪器的设计都具有非常重要的意义。文章分析了极端温度、辐射环境和行星表面综合环境对探测器的影响,并对开展相关研究提出了建议。     

基于快速模糊干扰观测器的UASV再入Terminal滑模控制

针对无人空天飞行器再人大气层过程中气动参数变化剧烈、控制精度要求高的特点，设计了基于快速模糊干扰观测器的Terminal滑模控制方案。通过改进传统模糊干扰观测器的学习律，提出一种快速模糊干扰观测器，增强了其在线逼近干扰及系统不确定的能力。Terminal滑模的有限时间收敛特性提高了系统跟踪速度，同时采用快速模糊干扰观测器消除全部扰动的影响，从而保证了飞行品质。最后，仿真结果表明了快速模糊干扰观测器的优越性及闭环控制方案的有效性。     

地球静止轨道空间碎片的处置

介绍了国际机构间碎片协调委员会提出的关于地球静止轨道（GEO）空间碎片问题的研究结果和碎片处置的建议，主要内容包括：GEO与GEO环的概念、EGO上物体现状，EGO空间碎片处置的基本原则和8条具体处置措施建议。该建议已于2000年2月提交联合国和平利用外层空间委员会科技小组委员会第37届会议。     

Cost Engineering – The new paradigm for space launch vehicle design

The paper describes the basic definition and application of 'Cost Engineering' which means to design a vehicle system for minimum development cost and/or for minimum operations cost. This is important now and for the future since space transportation has become primarily a commercial business in contrast to the past where it has been mainly a subject of military power and national prestige. Several examples are presented for minimum-cost space launch vehicle configurations, such as increasing vehicle size and/or the use of less efficient rocket engines in order to reduce development and operations cost. Further a cost comparison is presented on single-stage (SSTO)-vehicles vs. two-stage launchers which shows that SSTOs have lower development and operations cost although they are larger, respectively have a higher lift-off mass than two-stage vehicles with the same performance. The design of a space tourism-dedicated launch vehicle is an extreme challenge for a cost-engineered vehicle design in order to achieve cost per seat not higher than $50,000. Finally an outlook is presented on the different options for manned Earth-to-Moon transportation modes and vehicles – another most important application of 'cost engineering', taking into account the large cost of such a future venture.