무궁화위성의 정상운용모드에서의 자세제어 시스팀

KOREASAT On-Orbit Normal Mode Attitude Control System

무궁화 위성체는 10년 수명기간 동안 통신 및 직접방송 위성서비스에 필요한 빔의 지향성을 유지하기 위하여 정확하고 신뢰성있는 자세제어 시스팀을 요구하고 있다. 본고에서는 무궁화 위성체가 정지궤도에서 정상운용모드로 동작하는데 요구되는 자세제어부속시스팀에 대한 상세설계기법 및 성능에 대해서 기술하고자 한다.

Koreasat spacecraft requires accurate and reliable attitude control to provide beam pointing for tenyear long communication and direction broadcasting services. This paper describes the detailed design and performance of an on-orbit normal mode attitude control subsystem for the spacecraft. Koreasat used a momentum wheel which has nominal momentum 475in-1b sec(547.6cm-kg sec) aligned with the pitch axis to control pitch attitude and provide gyroscopic stiffness in roll/yaw plane and used a 300 atm magnetic torquer to control the roll and yaw attitudes. An Earth Sensor Assembly (ESA) is used to provide pitch and roll information for the on-board micropocessor. The roll/yaw control used bang-off-bang control and while pitch axis control used proportional and integral control law. Control system errors during the operational normal mode are 0.03 deg, 0.1 deg and 0.01 deg in roll, yaw and pitch axes, respectively. Current attitude control system provides adequate control performances to capture initial attitude errors and spacecraft nutation.