• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.156-166
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• 2011

COMS (Communication Ocean and Meteorological Satellite), the Korea's first geostationary Earth observation satellite, started to operate 24 hours to observe Land/Ocean/Atmosphere with the MI (Meteorological Imager) and GOCI (Geostationary Ocean Color Imager). After the successful completion of the IOT (In-Orbit Test), the satellite is in normal operation from April of 2011. This paper describes an algorithm for scan mirror emissivity compensation of the COMS MI and its software implementation.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.108-114
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• 2008

The aim of this analysis is to verify the electrical compatibility of the interfaces which exist between TWTA(Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier) which is equipment of the Ka-band payload in COMS (Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite) and external equipments. For each interface, this study checked the compatibility between equipments for the power links, commands, digital telemetry, analog telemetry, and failure condition or AIT(Assembly, Integration and Test) errors. In addition with this interface compatibility verification, this study outputs electrical and manufacturing recommendations to be applied at harness level.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.95-102
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• 2008

COMS Satellite is automatically able to recover from any defined failure thanks to a full redundancy. This study assesses the effects of gyro failure on the COMS mission and analyzes the mechanism of Gyro Failure Detection, Isolation and Recovery about failure detection means, isolation and recovery actions and their consequences. At last, it checks the FDIR behavior from an injected failure on COMS simulator.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2009.03a
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• pp.167-171
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• 2009

정지궤도에서는 세계 최초의 해양관측위성으로 개발된 정지궤도 해양위성(GOCI, Geostationary Ocean Color Imager)은 통신해양기상위성(COMS, Communication, Ocean and Meterological Satellite)의 탑재체로서 2009년말 발사 예정이다. 정지궤도 해양위성의 복사보정은 센서의 전기적 특성에 의한 잡음을 제거하기 위한 암흑전류 교정(Dark Current Correction)을 먼저 수행한 다음, 주운영지상국인 해양위성센터(KOSC, Korea Ocean Satellite Center)에서 수신된 위성의 원시자료의 Digital Number(DN)를 실제 해양원격탐사에서 이용하는 물리량인 복사휘도(Radiance, $W/m^2/{\mu}m/sr$)로 변환하는 복사보정을 수행한다. 정확도 높은 복사보정을 수행하기 위해서는 기준광원의 복사휘도와 센서의 물리적 특성을 정확하게 알아야 한다. 정지궤도 해양위성 궤도상 복사보정(on-orbit radiometric calibration)에서는 태양이 기준광원이기 때문에, 기준 태양복사모델(Thuillier 2004 Solar Irradiance Model)에서 지구-태양간 거리 변화(1년 주기)를 보정한 태양의 방사도 (Irradiance)를 이용하고, 태양입사각에 대한 태양광 확산기의 감쇄 특성 변화를 고려하여 센서에 입력되는 복사휘도를 계산한다. 센서의 물리적 특성으로 인한 복사보정의 오차를 줄이기 위해 우주방사선 및 우주먼지(space debris)로 인해 위성 운용기간 중 그 특성이 저하되는 태양광 확산기(solar Diffuser)의 특성변화를 모니터링하기 위한 DAMD(Diffuser Aging Monitoring Device)를 이용한다. 정지궤도 해양위성 주관운영기관인 한국해양연구원의 해양위성센터에서는 정지궤도 해양위성 복사보정을 수행하기 위한 S/W를 통신해양기상위성 자료처리시스템 개발사업의 일환으로 개발하였으며, 관련 성능 시험을 수행하고 있다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.46.2-46.2
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• 2009

탑재소프트웨어는 위성의 자세, 전력, 열 제어를 담당하는 소프트웨어로서 위성의 탑재컴퓨터 상에서 실행된다. 탑재소프트웨어는 추력기, 배터리, 온도조절장치와 같은 위성의 하드웨어 장치를 자치적으로 관리한다. 지상에서 위성을 운영할 수 있도록 탑재소프트웨어는 지상으로부터 명령을 받아서 처리하고, 위성의 텔레메트리 데이터를 지상으로 전송한다. 위성의 탑재소프트웨어를 프로그래밍하기 위하여 C 언어와 ADA 언어가 주로 사용된다. 이 논문에서는 소프트웨어 디자인과 하위레벨 프로그래밍 관점에서 C 언어와 ADA 언어를 비교 분석한다. 프로그래밍언어는 소프트웨어 디자인과 불가분의 관계에 있다. 이 논문은 프로그래밍언어와 함께 다목적실용위성과 통신해양기상위성의 소프트웨어 디자인을 소개한다. 다목적실용위성의 탑재소프트웨어는 절차 지향언어인 C로 작성되었으며, 함수 호출을 기반으로 설계되었다. 통신해양기상위성의 경우, 객체지향언어인 ADA로 작성되었으며, HOOD(Hierarchical Object-Oriented Design) 기법에 따라 모델링되었다. 탑재소프트웨어 프로그래밍언어는 위성의 탑재 하드웨어와 직접적으로 상호작용하도록 요구된다. 이 논문은 C와 ADA 언어가 메모리주소 및 로우 스토리지를 다루는 방법을 보여준다.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.84-92
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• 2010

Prior to the launch of COMS Satellite, the validation of the ground system for satellite operations has been performed using the real COMS, the satellite simulator and etc. In particular this paper will focus on the part of ground system test on which the simulator is used and it will present the usage, range and importance of the simulator utilization. Furthermore, it describes the practical experience on and its effect using Simulator for system validation, and suggests approaches to overcome a partial limitation.

• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.121-130
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• 2009

In this paper, the attitude and orbit control subsystem technology of new GEO communication and observation satellite using Sun sensors are introduced and analyzed. COMS is new GEO communication and Earth observation satellite based on EUROSTAR 3000 space bus technology. The attitude and orbit control subsystem of COMS adopts a configuration using three BASS and three LIASS Sun sensors to acquire the attitude error information in the specific reference frames. These Sun sensors are used to acquire Sun direction and to control the spacecraft to keep the relative attitude with respect to a reference Sun direction in both transfer and operational orbits. In this paper, the mathematical models of BASS and LIASS are described as well as their operational implementation in the flight software.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.191-195
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• 2008

In Ansan (the headquarter of KORDI ; Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute), KOSC(Korea Ocean Satellite Center) is being prepared for acquisition, processing and distribution of sensor data via L-band from GOCI(Geostationary Ocean Color Imager) instrument which is loaded on COMS(Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite); it will be launched in 2009. The basis equipment of KOSC(Electric power, Network, Security) has been constructed in 2007. KOSC is being constructed data processing and management system, GOCI L-band reception system, etc. The final object of KOSC is that maximize the application of GOCI.

• 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.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.267-271
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• 2004

The satellite in the geostationary orbit rotates around Earth center with the same angular rate as the Earth. So, the Earth can be observed with sequential time series. GOES(Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites)-9 is a meteorological satellite, which is now located at 155ㆁE geostationary orbit location in order to monitor East-Asia meteorological environment including Korean Peninsular. Every meteorological information is acquired from GOES-9 with the period of about 1 hour. COMS(Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite) has been developed by KARI(Korea Aerospace Research Institute) since 2003 and will be launched at 2008. COMS will be located at different orbit location compared to GOES-9. In this study, a simulated COMS image which is the perspective from different geostationary orbit location is generated using an GOES-9 image.