Estimating sea level rise around Australia using a new approach to account for low frequency climate signals

Regional sea level studies help to identify the vulnerable areas to the sea level rise. This study investigates the impact of climate modes on sea level variations and trends around Australia using altimetry data, climate indices, and sea level records from tide gauge stations. Here, we show that the sea level variations are negatively correlated with climate indices to the north and west of Australia. The spectral analyses of the climate indices and tide gauge data suggest that a low frequency signal with a period of 11 years emerges during the mid 1980s. Since the 25-year length of the satellite altimetry record is yet too short to detect low frequency signals, their effect on the estimation of regional sea level trend is unknown. Therefore, we estimate the sea level trend with consideration of this signal and using a two-step method. All signals with periods shorter than 7.5 years are first removed from sea level time series and then the trend is estimated using the parametric model that includes the 11-year signal. The skill of the parametric model in explaining the variations in sea level anomaly validates the presence of the 11-year signal detected in the spectrograms of the tide gauge data and climate indices. The average sea level trend for the study area is estimated as 3.85 ± 0.15 mm/year.     

Satellite selection methods for multi-constellation advanced RAIM

The increased number of potential threat modes under multi-constellation advanced receiver autonomy integrity monitoring (ARAIM) requires an increase in the number of subsets and a correspondingly high computational load. A new satellite selection method based on integrity support message (ISM) parameters is proposed and compared with GDOP-based selection. The performance was tested on five days of data measurements from 21 multi-global navigation satellite system experiment (MGEX) stations distributed around the world, as well as simulation using the broadcast ephemeris. The results show that the proposed ISM-based satellite selection method is highly compatible with the baseline ARAIM. This method could reduce the computational times by about 60–70% quickly, with minimising vertical protection level (VPL) loss, which was consistently within 1 m, even a reduced VPL value in some epochs, and resulting in an improved availability. The simulation results were similar to the MGEX data. It appears that the application of ISM-based satellite selection can effectively reduce computational burden with a minimal impact on availability.     

Fast cooperative trajectory optimization and test verification for close-range satellite formation using Finite Fourier Series method

The process of formation reconfiguration for close-range satellite formation should take into account the risk of collisions between satellites. To this end, this paper presents a method to rapidly generate low-thrust collision-avoidance trajectories in the formation reconfiguration using Finite Fourier Series (FFS). The FFS method can rapidly generate the collision-avoidance three-dimensional trajectory. The results obtained by the FFS method are used as an initial guess in the Gauss Pseudospectral Method (GPM) solver to verify the applicability of the results. Compared with the GPM method, the FFS method needs very little computing time to obtain the results with very little difference in performance index. To verify the effectiveness, the proposed method is tested and validated by a formation control testbed. Three satellite simulators in the testbed are used to simulate two-dimensional satellite formation reconfiguration. The simulation and experimental results show that the FFS method can rapidly generate trajectories and effectively reduce the risk of collision between satellites. This fast trajectory generation method has great significance for on-line, constantly satellite formation reconfiguration.     

卫星指令控制系统中的信息反馈校验监督

本文讨论采用信息反馈校验方式的卫星指令控制系统的信息反馈校验监督能力问题。提出了关于信息反馈校验指令控制系统的最佳监督概念和校验监督能力的概率表示。还讨论了改善系统校验监督能力的途径。利用本文给出的概率分析方法,可以完成系统性能的评价。     

利用星敏感器的卫星自主导航

本课题对利用星敏感器进行卫生自主导航问题作了初步的研究，研究表明，当已知地球大气的星光折射模型，则可利用星光折射的测量或掩星时刻的测量来实现卫生的自主导航，在导航过程中不需要精确的姿态确定，研究报告提出了相应的基本导航算法，讨论了误差的影响，通过数学仿真模拟计算，给出了数值结果，提示了这类导航的若干特点。     

中继卫星S频段多址系统应用服务模式

通过深入分析TDRSS(Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System,跟踪与数据中继卫星系统)多址业务的主要能力、业务类型以及服务对象,概括总结出了TDRSS多址业务的2种应用服务模式,即周计划模式和按需接入模式。在此基础之上,设计了我国中继卫星SMA(S-band Multiple Access,S频段多址系统)的预分配服务模式、周计划服务模式和按需接入服务模式等3种应用服务模式。针对这些,建议:低速测控及数传需求的用户平台在安装S频段中继终端时,考虑兼容S频段单址和多址业务;用户中心S频段低速测控及数传服务尽可能使用SMA;用户在单独使用返向SMA资源时,必须确保中继终端处于开机状态,并指向中继卫星。     

深空探测中利用静止轨道卫星编队连续导航精度分析

针对我国难以全天候24小时对探测器连续测控和通信，以及建立全球性深空网络困难的问题，提出利用地球静止轨道卫星编队进行深空导航的构想。两个静止轨道卫星编队相距一定角度，可以完成对深空探测器进行全天候连续导航定位。卫星编队采用无源反向导航的方法，多颗卫星协同工作，共同完成导航任务。分析表明该天基导航系统的几何参数精度因子受时间测量误差均方差和基线长度变化影响较大。编队的构型对定位精度有很大影响，其中基线长度不能过小，时间测量误差均方差不能过大，否则定位误差会急剧增加，伴随卫星椭圆轨道偏心率也存在一定界限。增加伴随卫星数量也有利于提高系统的定位精度。     

卫生捕获太阳的新方法

对卫星入轨后捕获太阳的方法进行了研究,并对一种有效的控制规律进行了分析计算,最后对卫星的运动过程进行了仿真验证。     

卫星总体优化设计研究

结合传统卫星总体设计思想和现代优化方法，对卫星总体优化设计的概念、研究内容进行了分析，并且提出了卫星总体优化设计流程，即：首先将用户提出的任务目标转化成任务要求，进而进行总体方案类型优选。然后在此基础上进行总体参数优化设计，最后形成满足用户任务目标和任务要求的最佳总体方案设计文件。