基于改进鸽群算法的气动捕获轨道优化

针对火星探测器的气动捕获轨道，提出了一种改进的鸽群算法对气动捕获轨道进行优化。首先，考虑成功进行气动捕获所要求的终端约束和过程约束，根据从捕获轨道进行轨道转移进入目标轨道所需的速度增量，提出了进行捕获轨道优化的最优性能指标。然后，针对原始鸽群算法存在的一些不足，提出一种改进算法，并对改进算法的参数取值进行了分析。最后，基于大气内飞行的动力学方程，将气动捕获轨道优化问题转化为多参数优化问题，利用所提出的改进鸽群算法对气动捕获轨道进行优化，并通过仿真实例验证该算法的有效性。     

Exploration life support technology challenges for the Crew Exploration Vehicle and future human missions

As NASA implements the U.S. Space Exploration Policy, life support systems must be provided for an expanding sequence of exploration missions. NASA has implemented effective life support for Apollo, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station (ISS) and continues to develop advanced systems. This paper provides an overview of life support requirements, previously implemented systems, and new technologies being developed by the Exploration Life Support Project for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and Lunar Outpost and future Mars missions. The two contrasting practical approaches to providing space life support are (1) open loop direct supply of atmosphere, water, and food, and (2) physicochemical regeneration of air and water with direct supply of food. Open loop direct supply of air and water is cost effective for short missions, but recycling oxygen and water saves costly launch mass on longer missions. Because of the short CEV mission durations, the CEV life support system will be open loop as in Apollo and Space Shuttle. New life support technologies for CEV that address identified shortcomings of existing systems are discussed. Because both ISS and Lunar Outpost have a planned 10-year operational life, the Lunar Outpost life support system should be regenerative like that for ISS and it could utilize technologies similar to ISS. The Lunar Outpost life support system, however, should be extensively redesigned to reduce mass, power, and volume, to improve reliability and incorporate lessons learned, and to take advantage of technology advances over the last 20 years. The Lunar Outpost design could also take advantage of partial gravity and lunar resources.     

Drag and energy accommodation coefficients during sunspot maximum

Conditions appropriate to gas-surface interactions on satellite surfaces in orbit have not been successfully duplicated in the laboratory. However, measurements by pressure gauges and mass spectrometers in orbit have revealed enough of the basic physical chemistry that realistic theoretical models of the gas-surface interaction can now be used to calculate physical drag coefficients. The dependence of these drag coefficients on conditions in space can be inferred by comparing the physical drag coefficient of a satellite with a drag coefficient fitted to its observed orbital decay. This study takes advantage of recent data on spheres and attitude stabilized satellites to compare physical drag coefficients with the histories of the orbital decay of several satellites during the recent sunspot maximum. The orbital decay was obtained by fitting, in a least squares sense, the semi-major axis decay inferred from the historical two-line elements acquired by the US Space Surveillance Network. All the principal orbital perturbations were included, namely geopotential harmonics up to the 16th degree and order, third body attraction of the Moon and the Sun, direct solar radiation pressure (with eclipses), and aerodynamic drag, using the Jacchia-Bowman 2006 (JB2006) model to describe the atmospheric density. After adjusting for density model bias, a comparison of the fitted drag coefficient with the physical drag coefficient has yielded values for the energy accommodation coefficient as well as for the physical drag coefficient as a function of altitude during solar maximum conditions. The results are consistent with the altitude and solar cycle variation of atomic oxygen, which is known to be adsorbed on satellite surfaces, affecting both the energy accommodation and angular distribution of the reemitted molecules.     

发展X-37B空间飞机的背后动因分析

文章通过对X-37B飞行器的飞行试验任务分析,指出了X-37B飞行器不是空天飞机,也不是全球快速打击平台,而是一种低成本太空进入能力的飞行验证器,它的作用定位在空间而不是在空中。通过飞行试验和验证试验,旨在打造一个可重复使用的轨道转移运载器。将美国2010年航天战略的重大调整、国际空间站的运行延期和航天飞机退役等事件结合起来,对X-37B发展的背后动因进行分析,有助于了解美国航天发展的未来趋势。经过动因的详尽分析,指出要特别关注美国航天战略调整的两个重心转向,尤其是两个转向背后的动机。如何正确地认识国际空间站的作用定位,对于审视载人航天的未来发展有重要意义。美国航天战略的调整使载人航天的重心回到近地轨道上。基于中国目前的能力现实,建议中国的载人航天重心放在地球轨道上,做好各种能力的建设,并利用这些能力把地球轨道上的事做得更好。     

航天器用氢镍蓄电池钝化技术研究

为了减缓蓄电池组爆炸产生的空间碎片,文章对常在航天器上应用的氢镍蓄电池的钝化技术进行了研究。首先分析了氢镍蓄电池的爆炸机理,然后针对氢镍蓄电池组提出了安全性设计方法;进行了过充电、过放电等蓄电池爆炸试验;研制了一台氢镍蓄电池钝化装置,进行了蓄电池钝化消能试验。     

An Improved Double r-iteration IOD Method for GEO UCTs Based on SBSS System

The purpose of initial orbit determination, especially in the case of angles-only data for observation, is to obtain an initial estimate that is close enough to the true orbit to enable subsequent precision orbit determination processing to be successful. However, the classical angles-only initial orbit determination methods cannot deal with the observation data whose Earth-central angle is larger than 360°. In this paper, an improved double r-iteration initial orbit determination method to deal with the above case is presented to monitor geosynchronous Earth orbit objects for a spacebased surveillance system. Simulation results indicate that the improved double r-iteration method is feasible, and the accuracy of the obtained initial orbit meets the requirements of re-acquiring the object.      

绳系系统轨道机动过程中的面内摆角抑制

摘要： 针对绳系卫星系统轨道机动过程中面内摆角抑制问题进行控制器设计.仅考虑面内摆角子系统下,针对绳系系统的动力学模型,提出了分层迭代非线性滑模控制方法.证明控制方法设计的控制律使系统所有状态渐近稳定.通过数学仿真验证方法的有效性和优势.     

两行根数的精度评估

两行根数是北美防空司令部基于一般摄动理论产生的用于预报地球轨道飞行器位置和速度的一组轨道根数,用于近地卫星时所采用的数学模型是SPG4,它已被著名软件STK选为进行轨道推算的可选方法之一。文章对它的精度进行了评估,并认为它有很大的应用价值。     

持续推进地球轨道转移的直接优化方法(英文)

对于一大类时间最省(单次推进)和燃料最省(多次推进)的中等推力水平持续推进地球轨道转移问题,本文给出了一种系统的直接优化方法。首先,对于具有倾角和偏心率的目标轨道,我们介绍了一种惯性坐标转换方法得到更具一般性的末端约束条件。这个转换避免了逆行赤道轨道对春分点轨道根数引起的奇异,同时也提高了求解优化问题的收敛性。多次打靶法在本文中也得到了应用,给出了针对不同形式的轨道转移如何分配多次打靶变量的方法。基于惯性坐标转换和多次打靶法,最优控制问题转换为利用非线性规划法求解的参数优化问题。本文给出了单次推进时间最省以及多达12次推进燃料最省的轨道转移仿真结果,所有收敛结果均以简单定义的初值迭代得到。最后,我们讨论了利用模型预测控制进行自主制导的潜在方案。     

燃料受限的时间最优多脉冲交会问题

主要研究了时间最优多脉冲交会问题中最优交会时间和最优脉冲数随各因素的变化规律.建立了考虑路径约束的数学模型,并利用遗传算法对问题进行了求解.在此基础上通过大量的数值计算研究了共面圆轨道间交会问题中各因素(包括轨道半径比、初始相位差、燃料以及路径约束)对最优交会时间和最优脉冲次数的影响,并总结出了最优交会时间和最优脉冲数随各因素的变化规律.根据最优交会时间随各因素变化的曲线较为"平缓"(均为单调或只有一个极值)的事实,指出可以利用较少的特征点通过插值的方法来快速求解最优交会策略.结论对于空间营救和在轨规避等实际任务的轨道设计具有一定的参考价值.