• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.403-416
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• 2009

COMS (Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite) is a geostationary satellite and developed by KARl for communication, ocean and meteorological observations. It will be tested under vacuum and very low temperature conditions in order to verify thermal design of COMS. The test will be performed by using KARI large thermal vacuum chamber, which was developed by KARI, and the COMS will be the first flight satellite tested in this chamber. The purposes of thermal balance test are to correlate analytical model used for design evaluation and predicting temperatures, and to verify and adjust thermal control concept. KARI has plan to use heating plates to simulate space hot condition especially for radiator panels of satellite such as north and south panels. They will be controlled from 90 K to 273 K by circulating GN2 and LN2 alternatively according to the test phases, while the main shroud of the vacuum chamber will be under constant temperature, 90 K, during all thermal balance test. This paper presents thermal modelling including test chamber, heating plates and the satellite without solar array wing and Ka-band reflectors and discusses temperature prediction during thermal balance test.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.08a
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• pp.114.2-114.2
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• 2013

위성체가 임무를 수행하는 우주환경은 지상 환경과 달리 고진공, 고온 및 극저온의 가혹한 환경 이다. 이에 $10^{-5}$ Torr 이하의 고진공과 $-180^{\circ}C$ 이하의 극저온 및 고온의 환경조건을 지상에서 모사하기 위해서는 열진공챔버와 같은 우주환경모사장비가 사용된다. 위성체를 열진공챔버에 설치하고 우주환경모사 시험의 월할한 진행을 위하여 열진공챔버 내 레일을 설치하여 열진공시험 준비 및 열진공시험이 수행되어진다. 현재 위성체 연구개발의 발전으로 다양한 기능 및 장비의 추가로 인하여 위성체가 대형화 되어지고 있다. 이에 보다 안전한 시험 준비 및 수행을 위하여 현재 운용되어지고 있는 열진공챔버의 개선이 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 상용유한요소해석 프로그램 MSC.PATRAN/NASTRAN을 사용하여 대형 위성체의 우주환경모사 시험을 위한 열진공챔버 내 레일에 대한 구조 안선성을 평가 하고자 한다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.135-141
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• 2009

A preliminary thermal analysis is performed for the optical payload system of a geostationary satellite. The optical payload considered in this paper is GOCI(Geostationary Ocean Color Imager) of COMS of Korea. The radiative and conductive thermal models are employed in order to predict thermal responses of the GOCI on the geostationary orbit. According to the results of this analysis are as follows: 1) the GOCI instrument thermal control is satisfactory to provide the temperatures for the GOCI performances, 2) the thermal control is defined and interfaces are validated, and 3) the entrance baffle temperature is found slightly out its specification, therefore further detailed analyses should be continued on this element.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.24-30
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• 2010

A preliminary thermal analysis is performed for the optical payload system of a geostationary satellite. The optical payload considered in this paper is GOCI(Geostationary Ocean Color Imager) of COMS of Korea. The radiative and conductive thermal models are employed in order to predict thermal responses of the GOCI on the geostationary orbit. The results of this analysis are as follows: 1) the GOCI instrument thermal control is satisfactory to provide the temperatures for the GOCI performances, 2) the thermal control is defined and interfaces are validated, and 3) the entrance baffle temperature and shutter wheel motor gradient are found slightly out their specification, therefore further detailed analyses should be continued on these elements.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.80-87
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• 2016

In this work, we conduct a thermal pointing error analysis of the observation satellites considering seasonal and daily temperature variation with interpolated temperature based on prescribed average temperature (PAT) method. Maximum 200 degree temperature excursion is applied to the observation satellites during on-orbit operation, which cause the line of sight (LOS) to deviate from the designated pointing direction due to thermo-elastic deformation. To predict and adjust such deviation, the thermo-elastic deformation analysis with a fine structural finite element model is accomplished with interpolated thermal maps calculated from the results of on-station thermal analysis with a coarse thermal model. After verifying the interpolated temperatures by PAT with two benchmark problems, we evaluate the thermal pointing error.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.9-15
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• 2012

Thermal model reduction algorithms and techniques are introduced to condense a huge satellite panel thermal model into the simplified model on the purpose of calculating the thermal responses of a satellite on orbit. Guyan condensation algorithm with the substitution matrix manipulation is developed and the mathematical procedure is depicted step by step. A block-form LU decomposition method is also invited to compare the developed algorithm. The constructed reduced thermal model induced from the detailed model based on a real satellite panel is satisfying the correlation criterion of ${\pm}2^{\circ}C$ for the validity accuracy. Guyan condensation algorithm is superior to the block-form LU decomposition method on computation time.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.66-72
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• 2019

The observation satellites which uses high heat-dissipating equipment such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites require a radiator to transmit heat from the equipment into outer space. However, during cold conditions it requires a heater to maintain the temperature of equipment within the allowable minimum limit when it is not in operation. In this study, we proposed a variable conductivity radiator that changes its thermal conductivity value through movement of the liquid metal between two reservoirs based on the temperature condition. This reduces the power consumption of the heater by limiting heat transfer path to the radiator in cold condition, while effectively transferring heat to the radiator during hot condition. The feasibility of the proposed radiator was validated through comparison of the thermal control performance with the conventional fixed conductivity radiator via a thermal analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.43 no.12
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• pp.1079-1088
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• 2015

Parallelism and performance enhancement of calculating view factors in KSDS developed by KARI is introduced in this paper. View factor is an essential parameters of radiation thermal analysis for a spacecraft, and the amount of computation of them is not negligible. Especially, independent integration of view factors at each position of the orbit because the relative displace between solar panel and main body of a satellite varies with the position on the orbit. This paper introduces a range of parallelism of computing view factor and their performance, detection of obstructions by spatial search algorithm based on KD-Tree, and the reduction of the calculation of view factors of a satellite with relative motion between solar panel and main body, called updating fractional view factor matrix, for satellite thermal analysis.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2001.03a
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• pp.42-48
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• 2001

오늘날 원격탐사와 GIS를 이용한 시·공간적 분석은 인간활동에서부터 자연환경에 이르기까지 다양한 정보를 추출하기 위한 기법으로 자주 사용되고 있다. 본 연구는 위성원격 탐사자료와 GIS를 활용하여 시기별 도시지역에서의 열 분포 특성을 추출하여 토지피복과의 상관관계를 시·공간적으로 해석하였다. 이를 위하여 세 시기간 도시 열 분포의 특성을 도시성장과 함께 해석함과 동시에 보다 명확 하게 규명하기 위하여 Landsat TM band 6의 DN value를 이용한 지표온도 추출에 있어서 NASA 모델을 활용하여 대구시 주변지역 8개 지점의 AWS 실측 값과 서로 상관 분석한 결 과 평균 0.85의 상관정도를 얻었다. 또한 토지피복분류를 통하여 도시성장에 따른 열 분포 및 식생지수의 변화를 시·공간적으로 해석하기 위하여 1,000지점에서 sample 자료를 추출 하여 지형특성별 열 분포의 패턴을 분석하였다. 이와 같은 결과는 향후 도시환경 특성을 고 려한 환경 친화적인 도시계획수립에 있어서 중요한 인자로 작용할 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.96-101
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• 2024

The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is equipped with a Transmitter/Receiver (TR) module, which serves as the signal transmission and reception unit for acquiring image data. The TR module generates significant heat during signal generation and amplification, potentially degrading performance or causing mission failure. Furthermore, launch and operational environments may result in structural damage to the components. Thus, assessing the thermal and structural safety of the TR module through thermal and vibration tests is essential to guarantee its safety. Safety assessments can be verified through environmental tests prescribed in MIL-STD-883. This paper explores the thermal and structural safety characteristics of the TR module by simulating test environments using finite element analysis prior to conducting environmental tests.