High energy-density propulsion—reducing the risk to humans in planetary exploration

The potential benefits to humankind of space exploration are tremendous. Space is not only the final frontier but is also the next marketplace. The orbital space above Earth offers tremendous opportunities for both strategic assets and commercial development. The critical obstacle retarding the use of the space around the Earth is the lack of low cost access to orbit. Further out, the next giant leap for mankind will be the human exploration of Mars. Almost certainly within the next 30 years, a human crew will brave the isolation, the radiation, and the lack of gravity to walk on and explore the Red planet. Both of these missions will change the outlook and perspective of every human being on the planet. However, these missions are expensive and extremely difficult. Chemical propulsion has demonstrated an inability to achieve orbit cheaply and is a very high-risk option to accomplish the Mars mission. An alternative solution is to develop a high performance propulsion system. Nuclear propulsion has the potential to be such a system. The question will be whether humanity is willing to take on the challenge.     

平直地面对一类圆极化波的等效反射系数

本文研究了入射波电场为任意线极化时,平直地面反射波中左旋圆极化分量和右旋圆极化分量的数学描述,引入了地面对这类波的等效反射系数的概念,并给予了物理解释,讨论了应用的有关问题。     

Ionospheric behavior of the F2 peak parameters foF2 and hmF2 at Hainan and comparisons with IRI model predictions

Monthly median values of foF2, hmF2 and M(3000)F2 parameters, with hourly time interval resolution for the diurnal variation, obtained with DPS-4 digisonde observations at Hainan (19.4°N, 109.0°E) are used to study the low latitude ionospheric variation behavior. The observational results are compared with the International Reference Ionospheric Model (IRI) predictions. The time period coverage of the data used for the present study is from March 2002 to February 2005. Our present study showed that: (1) In general, IRI predictions using CCIR and URSI coefficients follow well the diurnal and seasonal variation patterns of the experimental values of foF2. However, CCIR foF2 and URSI foF2 IRI predictions systematically underestimate the observed results during most time period of the day, with the percentage difference ΔfoF2 (%) values changing between about −5% and −25%, whereas for a few hours around pre-sunrise, the IRI predictions generally overestimate the observational ones with ΔfoF2 (%) sometimes reaching as large as ∼30%. The agreement between the IRI results and the observational ones is better for the year 2002 than for the other years. The best agreement between the IRI results and the observational ones is obtained in summer when using URSI coefficients, with the seasonal average values of ΔfoF2 (%) being within the limits of ±10%. (2) In general, the IRI predicted hmF2 values using CCIR M(3000)F2 option shows a poor agreement with the observational results. However, when using the measured M(3000)F2 as input, the diurnal variation pattern of hmF2 given by IRI2001 has a much better agreement with the observational one with the detailed fine structures including the pre-sunrise and post-sunset peaks reproduced reasonably well. The agreement between the IRI predicted hmF2 values using CCIR M(30,000)F2 option and the observational ones is worst for the afternoon to post-midnight hours for the high solar activity year 2002. During daytime hours the agreement between the hmF2 values obtained with CCIR M(30,000)F2 option and the observational ones is best for summer season. The discrepancy between the observational hmF2 and that obtained with CCIR M(30,000)F2 option stem from the CCIR M(3000)F2 model, which does not produce the small scale structures observed in the measured M(3000)F2.     

喷管内型面烧蚀对发动机能量的影响

根据同一推进剂不同结构的两种型号发动机的试验结果，分析了喷管内型面烧蚀对发动机能量影响，提出了在两种烧蚀率相差较大的材料之间镶嵌一种烧蚀率适中的材料，可减少喷管内型面的烧蚀，提高喷管推力效率。     

一类统一的零(低)相关序列构造方法

基于自相关理想序列和正交矩阵建立一类统一的具有零(低)相关区的扩频序列构造方法,并对其相关特性进行分析和证明。该类方法可通过序列和矩阵的任意选取,统一地构造二元、三元、多相、复数的ZCZ(LCZ)序列集,且构造简单、形式统一,通用性更好,适用于准同步CDMA(QS-CDMA)系统。     

深空探测器推进系统

以技术较成效的月球探测器、火星探测器推进系统为重点，介绍了国外深空探测活动的情况。简述了深空探测对推进系统的需求、我国航天器液体推进技术的现状。认为我国的推进技术经一些适应性发展，即可满足深空探测的需求，并且设想了我国近期较为可行的深空探测器推进系统方案。     

空间小推力发动机推力室喷注器的设计与身部冷却问题

介绍了空间小推力双组元液体火箭发动机推力空头部喷注器设计的某些特点和身部冷却的一些问题，具体地讨论了几种喷注器设计方案和简述了身部液膜／辐射冷却的机制，并给出某些情况下估算壁温的方法。     

塞式喷管多参数性能优化计算

从影响塞式喷管推力性能的因素中总结出内喷管倾角，内膨胀比、总膨胀比，燃气总压和飞行高度这五个主要因素，并以推力最大为目标函数运用枚举和逐层优化的方法对上述五个参数的取值进行优化计算，提出了对这五个参数进行优化取值的方法并得到了相关结论，其结论可为实际的塞式喷管发动机设计研制提供部分的理论依据。指导相关设计参数的确定。     

国外几种新型微化学推力器

介绍了国外几种以微机电系统 (MEMS)技术为基础的液体和固体微化学推力器。这些新型微化学推力器具有MEMS技术微型化、低成本和批量生产的优点 ,并考虑了体积限制和高度集成等空间限制 ,能产生 10 -6～ 10N·s的推力脉冲 ,可用于微型卫星和纳米卫星的姿态调整、变轨和定向的精确控制。同时阐述了这几种微推力器结构特点和制造工艺 ,并与其他类型的推进器进行了比较     

低频靶标法测量CCD相机调制传递函数的仿真

基于用高频靶标法测试调制传递函数(MTF)时不能准确地体现出CCD器件的平均采样的情况。该文探讨用低频靶标法测试MTF,介绍它的原理;通过数字仿真CCD的光学镜头的模糊和采样平均过程,分析不同频率靶标的MTF测试结果,并分析相位造成的影响。