• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.579-592
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• 2016

CNUSAIL-1, to be launched into low-earth orbit, is a cubesat-class satellite equipped with a $2m{\times}2m$ solar sail. One of CNUSAIL's missions is to deploy its solar sail system, thereby deorbiting the satellite, at the end of the satellite's life. This paper presents the design results of the attitude control system for CNUSAIL-1, which maintains the normal vector of the sail by a 3-axis active attitude stabilization approach. The normal vector can be aligned in two orientations: i) along the anti-nadir direction, which minimizes the aerodynamic drag during the nadir-pointing mode, or ii) along the satellite velocity vector, which maximizes the drag during the deorbiting mode. The attitude control system also includes a B-dot controller for detumbling and an eigen-axis maneuver algorithm. The actuators for the attitude control are magnetic torquers and reaction wheels. The feasibility and performance of the design are verified in high-fidelity nonlinear simulations.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.533-537
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• 2013

Space telescope optics is one of the major parts of any space mission used to observe astronomical targets or the Earth. This kind of space mission typically involves bulky and complex opto-mechanics with a long optical tube, but attempts have been made to observe a target with a small satellite. In this paper, we describe the optical design of a reflecting telescope for use in a CubeSat mission. For this design we adopt the off-axis segmented method for astronomical observation techniques based on a Ritchey-Chr$\acute{e}$tien type telescope. The primary mirror shape is a rectangle with dimensions of $8cm{\times}8cm$, and the secondary mirror has dimensions of $2.4cm{\times}4.1cm$. The focal ratio is 3 which can yield a 0.383 degree diagonal angle in a $1280{\times}800$ CMOS color image sensor with a pixel size of $3{\mu}m{\times}3{\mu}m$. This optical design can capture a ${\sim}4km{\times}{\sim}2.3km$ area of the earth's surface at 700 km altitude operation.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.432-439
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• 2015

MEMS 고체 추력기 모듈은 MEMS 고체 추력기와 MEMS 추력기 제어보드로 구성된다. MEMS 고체 추력기는 학문적 연구개발 목적으로 개발되었기 때문에 발사환경을 고려한 설계 및 시험이 이루어지지 않아 이를 큐브위성에 탑재 및 궤도검증을 위해서는 설계 시 추력기 모듈로의 발사 하중이 최소화 되도록 하는 위성체 시스템 레벨에서의 설계노력이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 MEMS 고체 추력기의 조립 및 시험과정에서의 탈장착 용이성 및 발사환경에서의 구조건전성 확보를 위해 브래킷을 이용한 구조설계를 제안하였으며, 준정적해석과 랜덤해석 및 진동시험을 통해 설계의 유효성을 검증하였다. 또한, 본 논문에서 제안한 스프링 핀을 이용한 MEMS 추력기와의 전기적 체결방식은 발사 진동에서의 구조건전성 확보에 유효함을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.109-116
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• 2022

The small-scale magnetospheric and ionospheric plasma experiment (SNIPE) is a mission initiated by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) in 2017 and comprises four 6U-sized nano-satellites (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute Satellite-1, KASISat-1) flying in formations. The main goal of the SNIPE mission is to investigate the space environment in low Earth orbit at 500-km. Because Iridium & GPS Board (IGB) is installed on the KASISat-1, a communication simulation is required to analyze the contact number and the duration. In this study, communication simulations between the Iridium satellite network and KASISat-1 are performed using STK Pro (System Tool Kit Pro Ver 11.2) from the AGI (Analytical Graphics, Inc.). The contact number and durations were analyzed by each orbit and date. The analysis shows that the average access number per day is 38.714 times, with an average of 2.533 times per orbit for a week. Furthermore, on average, the Iridium satellite communication is linked for 70.597 min daily. Moreover, 4.625 min is the average duration of an individual orbit.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.117-129
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• 2020

In a Satellite communication system, a link budget analysis is the detailed investigation of signal gains and losses moving through a channel from a sender to receiver. It inspects the fading of passed on data signal waves due to the process of spreading or propagation, including transmitter and receiver antenna gains, feeder cables, and related losses. The extent of the proposed tool is to make an effective, efficient, and user-friendly approach to calculate link budget analysis. It is also related to the satellite communication correlation framework by building up a graphical interface link analysis tool utilizing STK^® software with the interface of C# programming. It provides better kinds of graphical display techniques, exporting and importing data files, printing link information, access data, azimuth-elevation-range (AER), and simulation is also possible at once. The components of the link budget analysis tool include transmitter gain, effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP), free space loss, propagation loss, frequency Doppler shift, flux density, link margin, elevation plot, etc. This tool can be useful for amateur users (e.g., CubeSat developers in the universities) or nanosat developers who may not know about the RF communication system of the satellite and the orbital mechanics (e.g., orbit propagators) principle used in the satellite link analysis.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.526-534
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• 2016

A MEMS solid propellant thruster array shall be operated within an allowable range of operating temperatures to avoid ignition failure by incomplete combustion due to a time delay in ignition. The structural safety of the MEMS thruster array under severe on-orbit thermal conditions can also be guaranteed by a suitable thermal control. In this study, we propose a thermal control strategy to perform on-orbit verification of a MEMS thruster module, which is expected to be the primary payload of the STEP Cube Lab mission. The strategy involves, the use of micro-igniters as heaters and temperature sensors for active thermal control because an additional heater cannot be implemented in the current design. In addition, we made efforts to reduce the launch loads transmitted to the MEMS thruster module at the system level structural design. The effectiveness of the proposed thermo-mechanical design strategy has been demonstrated by numerical analysis.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.92-99
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• 2008

다목적실용위성5호는 정밀궤도결정을 위하여 위성레이저반사경을 부착할 예정이다. 레이저반사경은 독일 DFZ에서 개발된 것으로 4개의 코너큐브로 구성된 피라미드 형태를 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 레이저반사경의 유효면적과 link budget에 따른 광자수 계산 및 지상관측소 위치에 따른 광자수 계산 등의 성능 해석을 수행하였다.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.36-41
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• 2014

KAFASAT is a CubeSat which has a high level mission of testing the possibility of establishing the LEO satellite constellation providing the role of communication nodes and quasi-realtime image recognition of battlefield in accordance with the aspect of future-war-environment. The high level mission is developed using the Pugh selection method, which is one of system engineering tools. In order to accomplish the high level mission objectives and deduce engineering level requirements, system engineering tools such as Analytic Hierarchy Process and Quality Function Deployment are used. The subsystem synthesis in the context of system engineering process is done using a developed integrated design environment. The paper also includes the conceptual design results of the KAFASAT, which can be used as a baseline for upcoming preliminary design.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.114-123
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• 2017

Little Intelligent Nanosatellite of KAIST(LINK)는 카이스트 항공우주 시스템 및 제어연구실(ASCL)에서 국제협력 프로젝트인 QB50의 일환으로 개발한 2U 크기의 큐브위성이다. QB50 프로젝트의 과학적 임무 목적은 열권 및 이온층 대기를 관측하는 것이며, 2017년 1분기부터 국제우주정거장에서 순차적으로 발사될 예정이다. 상기의 임무 구현을 위해 최종 비행모델을 개발하였으며, 수락 수준(Acceptance level)의 요구조건에 따라 환경시험 및 기능시험을 수행하여 위성의 성능 및 설계의 검증을 완료하였다. 본 논문에서는 비행모델 개발과 진동시험 및 열진공시험 결과에 대해 기술하였다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.274-280
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• 2016

2015년 발사예정인 우주기반기술 검증용 큐브위성 STEP Cube Lab.의 주요 탑재체인 열선절단방식 힌지구동형 구속분리장치는 높은 체결력 및 저충격 구현의 장점으로 초소형위성 전개구조물의 구속/분리에 적용이 용이하며, 기존 나일론선 절단방식의 낮은 체결력 및 복수구조물 적용에 따른 시스템 복잡화의 단점을 극복가능하다. 본 논문에서는 인증모델 검증시험이 완료된 구속분리장치의 궤도검증 임무수행을 목적으로 체결력 검증 및 전개 확인 신호 획득이 가능한 비행모델을 설계/제작하였으며, 탑재체 레벨에서의 발사 및 궤도환경 검증시험을 수행하여 설계 유효성을 입증하였다.