天文观测卫星动中探测机动测试系统设计

天文观测卫星普遍采用动中探测模式开展空间探测任务。为了实现动中探测姿态机动模式的地面有效验证，设计了整星机动集成测试方案。设计惯性空间基准的地面动力学仿真，满足惯性空间扫描仿真；设计整星各分系统间高精度时间统一系统，为整星机动测试提供统一基准；基于STK与Matlab接口模块，设计基于实时遥测数据的可视化判读系统，可提高测试判读实时性与准确度。整星测试结果表明，该方案有效验证了动中探测任务中姿态机动功能的正确性和指标符合情况，为开展整星地面测试和在轨应用提供了参考。     

Air-LUSI: A robotic telescope design for lunar spectral measurements

This paper presents the mechanical design of a new robotic telescope that was designed and built to acquire lunar spectral measurements from the science pod of NASA's ER-2 aircraft while flying at an altitude of 70,000 feet (21.34 km). The robotic telescope used a double gimbal design that allowed for target tracking in azimuth and elevation. In addition to the challenging and restrictive geometry of the science pod, each component needed to be carefully selected to ensure that they could withstand the operating conditions at high altitude such as harsh temperatures extending as low as −54 °C and atmospheric pressure less than 1.05 psi (7.23 kPa). Due to the cold temperatures, low atmospheric pressure and the likely exposure to moisture, high strength industrial linear actuators were used to create an adjustable linkage system that controlled the pointing and tracking of the telescope. Although unconventional, this allowed for a robust design that outperformed the team's expectations by tracking the Moon for 40 min with an average tracking error under 0.05°. The results presented within this paper were acquired during a first set of engineering test flights, with further scientific missions to follow.     

小卫星结构的发展与展望

从结构构型、结构材料、结构连接方式和结构评价指标四个方面论述了小卫星结构的发展现状,分析了小卫星球形或准球形壳体结构、箱板式卫星平台结构、框架式立方星结构、基于特殊需求的专用化结构及多功能一体化结构的特点及其适用范围,指出了未来小卫星结构通用化、小型化、专用化、多功能一体化的多元发展趋势,提出了小卫星结构材料、连接方式和评价指标方面的发展建议,旨在为小卫星结构的创新发展提供参考。     

Analytical expression for distant retrograde orbits around a small natural satellite

An analytical expression for distant retrograde orbits (DROs) is obtained in this study. Owing to the fact that a planar DRO is a closed orbit and can be expressed as an approximately elliptical orbit, respective geometries and periods of DROs are analytically calculated. A switching point, where various properties of planar DROs change abruptly with an increase in the orbital radius, is determined. The Mars–Deimos system is taken as a case study in this work. The proposed method can be applied to cases where the Hill’s approximation of the restricted three-body problem is valid. Numerical calculations are performed to validate the proposed method.     

Simulation study of motion of charged particles trapped in Earth’s magnetosphere

This article aims to understand the motion of the charged particles trapped in the Earth’s inner magnetosphere. The emphasis is on identifying the numerical scheme, which is appropriate to characterize the trajectories of the charged particles of different energies that enter the Earth’s magnetosphere and get trap along the magnetic field lines. These particles perform three different periodic motions, namely: gyration, bounce, and azimuthal drift. However, often, the gyration of the particle is ignored, and only the guiding center of the particle is traced to reduce the computational time. It is because the simulation of all three motions (gyro, bounce, and drift) together needed a robust numerical scheme, which has less numerical dissipation. We have developed a three-dimensional test particle simulation model in which the relativistic equation of motion is solved numerically using the fourth and sixth-order Runge-Kutta methods. The stability of the simulation model is verified by checking the conservation of total kinetic energy and adiabatic invariants linked with each type of motion. We found that the sixth-order Runge-Kutta method is suitable to trace the complete trajectories of both proton and electron of a wide energy range, 5 keV to 250 MeV for L = 2 – 6. We have estimated the bounce and drift periods from the simulations, and they are found to be in good agreement with the theory. The study implies that a simulation model with sixth-order Runge-Kutta method can be applied to the time-vary, non-analytical form of magnetic configuration in future studies to understand the dynamics of charged particles trapped in Earth’s magnetosphere.     

采用单目视觉的非合作目标星状态估计

针对微小卫星逼近观测未知的空间翻滚非合作目标星任务，提出一种基于单目视觉的目标星相对状态估计方法。在建立追踪星/目标星相对运动模型的基础上，以单目相机识别并测量获得的目标星固有特征的像素位置为观测输入，通过扩展卡尔曼滤波算法实现对目标星相对位置、相对速度、相对姿态、角速度、惯量比和特征位置等状态的估计。仿真结果表明,该方法能够很好地实现对未知非合作目标星的相对状态估计，姿态估计误差小于2°，位置估计误差小于0.1 m，特征点位置平均估计误差小于0.04 m。     

微重力条件下两相流动沸腾换热地面等效模拟试验研究的必要性

介绍了航天器的热控制模式、对在微重力下的单相流与两相流的换热系统、微重力下与重力场下的两相流沸腾换热进行了比较。最后论述了在微重力条件下进行两相流沸腾换热地面等效试验研究的必要性。     

GPS／SINS姿态组合系统空间一致性研究

在基于卡尔曼滤波器并引入了姿态观测量的GPS/SINS组合导航系统中,GPS天线体坐标系与IMU所在的载体坐标系由于安装误差或其他原因不能完全重合,两个坐标系间存在失准角,导致多天线GPS与SINS输出的姿态信息在空间不能同步,这将影响卡尔曼滤波的效果。本文针对这一问题进行了深入的研究,分析了两个坐标系空间不一致的机理,给出了静态和动基座情况下标定两个坐标系位置关系的方法并进行仿真分析验证了其可行性。     

Planetary Radiation Budgets

The energy state of a planet depends fundamentally on its radiation budget. Measurements made from space over past decades have led to significant revisions of ground-based estimates, both of the reflected fraction (the Bond albedo) of solar radiative flux and of the emitted thermal infrared radiation flux, for the Earth as well as for the other planets. After a brief survey of methods and difficulties in accurately determining planetary radiation budgets, we note contradictions in existing tabulations of global parameters, in particular Bond albedo. For the Earth, such contradictions are unjustified, considering that global and annual means as well as the seasonal cycle of Earth Radiation Budget components have now been determined with high accuracy. The Earth's Bond albedo is close to 0.3. Net storage of energy in the Earth-ocean system is close to zero, with a well-established annual cycle of amplitude close to ±12 Wm⁻². Some contradictions remain for the other terrestrial planets. For the giant planets, modern reduced values of the Bond albedo imply reduced but still significant internal energy generation.