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Analysis of Reentry Prediction of CZ-5B Rocket Body

창정 5B호 발사체의 재진입 시점 예측 분석

  • Received : 2021.07.30
  • Accepted : 2021.08.14
  • Published : 2021.08.31
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Abstract

This paper represents a reentry time prediction analysis of CZ-5B rocket-body in China, subject to analysis of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee Reentry (IADC) reentry test campaign conducted in May 2021. Predicting the reentry of space objects is difficult to accurately predict due to the lack of accurate physical information about target, and uncertainty in atmospheric density. Therefore, IADC conducts annual re-entry campaigns to verify analysis techniques by each agency, and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute has also participated in them since 2015. Ballistic coefficient estimation method proposed to predict target reentry time and the result confirmed the difference of 73 seconds, which confirms the accuracy of the proposed method.

본 논문은 2021년 5월에 수행된 국제우주쓰레기조정위원회(IADC, Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee Reentry) 재진입 테스트 캠페인의 분석 대상인 중국 창정 5B호 발사체의 재진입 시점 예측 분석 내용을 포함하고 있다. 우주물체의 재진입 예측은 물체의 크기나 무게, 자세에 대한 정확한 정보의 부재, 대기밀도의 불확실성 등으로 정확한 예측이 어렵다. 때문에 IADC에서는 재진입 캠페인을 매년 수행하여 기관별 분석기법에 대한 검증을 수행하고 있고, 한국항공우주연구원에서도 2015년부터 이에 참여하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 우주물체가 재진입하는 시점을 예측하기 위해 탄도계수 최적화 기법을 제안하였고, 이를 활용하여 분석 대상의 재진입 시점을 예측한 결과, 실제 재진입 시점과 약 73초의 차이를 보여주어 제안한 기법의 정확도를 확인하였다.

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본 연구는 한국항공우주연구원의 위성임무관제사업의 지원을 받아 수행되었습니다.

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