美国FIA光学成像卫星项目失败的启示

“未来成像体系”（FIA）是美国政府大胆创新发展的新一代间谍卫星项目。此项目的取消或许是美国50年间谍卫星发展历史中最为惨痛的失败。文章介绍了FIA项目的发展背景、先进能力以及整个研制过程,并介绍了美国采取的一些补救措施。最后总结了FIA项目失败所揭示的一些经验教训。     

基于卫星导航定位应用的高空气象探测系统

高空气象探测系统是人们获取地球大气层内气象信息的不可缺少的常规手段,由于受到常规手段本身的制约,探测精度、机动能力等重要指标难以得到进一步的提高;通过发展在常规手段上集成基于卫星导航定位应用模块的空间应用技术,可以极大地改善其探测精度,提高其机动应用效能,同时,也拓展了卫星导航定位应用的新的领域,促进了卫星导航定位应用产业的发展。     

基于约束满足的多星对区域目标观测活动协同

多星对区域目标观测活动的协同问题是卫星任务规划与调度领域的新问题。讨论了采用多星协同模式观测区域目标的必要性，描述了协同问题的研究内容。基于约束满足理论，建立了多星协同问题的约束优化问题模型，提出了一种禁忌算法与约束传播相结合的求解机制。最后，以仿真算例验证了模型与算法的正确性和优化性能。     

微小卫星星地数据链路层通讯协议的研究和开发

卫星和地面之间的交流通过它们之间的数据通讯来实现。为了实现星地通讯,必须选定双方都要遵守的协议。考虑到星地通信的可靠性和效率,在选择通讯协议时需遵循实用且最简单的原则。参考CCSDS的相关建议和Ax．25协议,开发了一种星地链路层通信协议。纳星一号飞行试验的运行结果表明,该协议具有较高的数据传榆效率和良好的可靠性,可以满足微小卫星的实际通信要求。     

基于信息一致性的分布式卫星姿态同步研究

针对分布式卫星自主姿态同步问题,提出了一种基于信息一致性的姿态协同及跟踪控制方法,它采用信息一致性的理论,通过设计卫星间的信息传递模型来解决分布式卫星间的姿态同步问题。文中分别给出了姿态协同及姿态跟踪两种控制方法,并对其稳定性进行了分析。最后针对两种信息拓扑模型,以实际的多颗分布式卫星和PWM(脉宽调制)喷气系统进行仿真实验,表明了本文方法有效地实现了姿态的协同及跟踪。
     

Scientific Progress in China's Lunar Exploration Program

Chang'E-1, the first lunar mission in China, was successfully launched on October 24,2007, which opened the prelude of China's Lunar Exploration Program. Later on, the Chang'E-2 and Chang'E-3 satellites were successfully launched in 2010 and 2013, respectively. In order to achieve the science objectives, various payloads boarded the spacecraft. The scientific data from these instruments were received by Beijing and Kunming ground stations simultaneously. Up to now, about 5.628 Terabytes of raw data were received totally. A series of research results has been achieved. This paper presents a brief introduction to the main scientific results and latest progress from Chang'E-3 mission.     

Parallel,adaptive, multi-object trajectory integrator for space simulation applications

Computer simulation is a very helpful approach for improving results from space born experiments. Initial-value problems (IVPs) can be applied for modeling dynamics of different objects – artificial Earth satellites, charged particles in magnetic and electric fields, charged or non-charged dust particles, space debris. An ordinary differential equations systems (ODESs) integrator based on applying different order embedded Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg methods is developed. These methods enable evaluation of the local error. Instead of step-size control based on local error evaluation, an optimal integration method is selected. Integration while meeting the required local error proceeds with constant-sized steps. This optimal scheme selection reduces the amount of calculation needed for solving the IVPs. In addition, for an implementation on a multi core processor and parallelization based on threads application, we describe how to solve multiple systems of IVPs efficiently in parallel.     

Switching and performance variations of on-orbit BDS satellite clocks

The information of the satellite clock switching and performance variations on-orbit of Chinese BeiDou-2 Navigation System (BDS) is not available for the public. In order to detect the BDS satellite clock switching and performances variation, we analyzed the precise clock offset products with a total duration of 5?years every BDS satellite equipped four atomic clocks from four different manufactures from January 2013 to October 2017. Three important contributions are concluded as follows. (1) It is found that the average time of on-orbit operation for BDS satellite clocks is about 1–2?years. There have been 22 times of clock switching for BDS satellites, of which the C05 and C08 satellites have been switched to the fourth (last) atomic clock. (2) There are frequent phase adjustments for BDS on-orbit satellite clocks, and the frequency series is relatively stable. Furthermore, there are semi-annual sinusoid cycles in the frequency drift series of C06 and C09 satellites. (3) The performances of MEO satellite clocks perform better than the IGSO and GEO satellite clocks. The average ten-thousand frequency stability of BDS satellite clocks is about 1E-13, which is worse than that of GPS and Galileo but better than that of GLONASS.     

考虑断点续传的中继卫星调度模型及启发式算法

为提高中继卫星系统的应用效能及数传任务的完成率，在中继卫星调度中考虑了断点续传这一应用模式，即对单个数传任务进行合理拆分，使其在多个时间窗口内完成。首先构建面向断点续传的中继卫星单址天线的调度模型，然后提出一种基于冲突风险评估的冲突度量化方法，并设计考虑断点续传的两阶段调度算法。最后开展大量的仿真实验将该算法与贪婪算法、基于最小冲突度的启发式算法和基于任务优先级的启发式算法这3个不考虑断点续传的算法进行对比。实验结果表明，所提出的算法在任务完成率方面分别提高了7.67%、6.34%和8.67%。     

A topside investigation over a mid-latitude digisonde station in Cyprus

We examine the systematic differences between topside electron density measurements recorded by different techniques over the low-middle latitude operating European station in Nicosia, Cyprus (geographical coordinates: 35.14^oN, 33.2^oE), (magnetic coordinates 31.86^oN, 111.83 ^oE). These techniques include space-based in-situ data by Langmuir probes on board.European Space Agency (ESA) Swarm satellites, radio occultation measurements on board low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 mission and ground-based extrapolated topside electron density profiles from manually scaled ionograms. The measurements are also compared with International Reference Ionosphere Model (IRI-2016) topside estimations and IRI-corrected NeQuick topside formulation (method proposed by Pezzopane and Pignalberi (2019)). The comparison of Swarm and COSMIC observations with digisonde and IRI estimations verifies that in the majority of cases digisonde underestimates while IRI overestimates Swarm observations but in general, IRI provides a better topside representation than the digisonde. For COSMIC and digisonde profiles matched at the F layer peak the digisonde systematically underestimates topside COSMIC electron density values and the relative difference between COSMIC and digisonde increases with altitude (above hmF2), while IRI overestimates the topside COSMIC electron density but after a certain altitude (~150 km above hmF2) this overestimation starts to decrease with altitude. The IRI-corrected NeQuick underestimates the majority of topside COSMIC electron density profiles and relative difference is lower up to approximately 100 km (above the hmF2) and then it increases. The overall performance of IRI-corrected NeQuick improves with respect to IRI and digisonde.