• 한국항공운항학회지
• /
• 제11권2호
• /
• pp.7-21
• /
• 2003

The objective of this study is to evaluate a feasibility of navigation systems appropriate for the Asia-Pacific region. As an independent navigation system, four, five, and six geosynchronous satellite constellations are simulated to provide a navigation system for the region and dilutions of precision of the proposed systems are analyzed and compared.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
• /
• 제8권4호
• /
• pp.451-460
• /
• 2006

Since low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations have important advantages over geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) systems such as low propagation delay, low power requirements, and more efficient spectrum allocation due to frequency reuse between satellites and spotbeams, they are considered to be used to complement the existing terrestrial fixed and wireless networks in the evolving global mobile network. However, one of the major problems with LEO satellites is their higher speed relative to the terrestrial mobile terminals, which move at lower speeds but at more random directions. Therefore, handover management in LEO satellite networks becomes a very challenging task for supporting global mobile communication. Efficient and accurate methods are needed for LEO satellite handovers between the moving footprints. In this paper, we propose a new seamless handover management scheme for LEO satellites (SeaHO-LEO), which utilizes the handover management schemes aiming at decreasing latency, data loss, and handover blocking probability. We also present another interesting handover management model called satellite mobility pattern based handover management in LEO satellites (PatHO-LEO) which takes mobility pattern of both satellites and mobile terminals into account to minimize the handover messaging traffic. This is achieved by the newly introduced billboard manager which is used for location updates of mobile users and satellites. The billboard manager makes the proposed handover model much more flexible and easier than the current solutions, since it is a central server and supports the management of the whole system. To show the performance of the proposed algorithms, we run an extensive set of simulations both for the proposed algorithms and well known handover management methods as a baseline model. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithms are very promising for seamless handover in LEO satellites.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
• /
• 제28권1호
• /
• pp.27-36
• /
• 2011

The present study examines the morning-afternoon asymmetry of the geosynchronous magnetic field strength on the dayside (magnetic local time [MLT] = 06:00~18:00) using observations by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) over a period of 9 years from February 1998 to January 2007. During geomagnetically quiet time (Kp < 3), we observed that a peak of the magnetic field strength is skewed toward the earlier local times (11:07~11:37 MLT) with respect to local noon and that the geosynchronous field strength is larger in the morning sector than in the afternoon sector. That is, there is the morning-afternoon asymmetry of the geosynchronous magnetic field strength. Using solar wind data, it is confirmed that the morning-afternoon asymmetry is not associated with the aberration effect due to the orbital motion of the Earth about the Sun. We found that the peak location of the magnetic field strength is shifted toward the earlier local times as the ratio of the magnetic field strength at MLT = 18 (B-dusk) to the magnetic field strength at MLT = 06 (B-dawn) is decreasing. It is also found that the dawn-dusk magnetic field median ratio, B-dusk/B-dawn, is decreasing as the solar wind dynamic pressure is increasing. The morning-afternoon asymmetry of the magnetic field strength appears in Tsyganenko geomagnetic field model (TS-04 model) when the partial ring current is included in TS-04 model. Unlike our observations, however, TS-04 model shows that the peak location of the magnetic field strength is shifted toward local noon as the solar wind dynamic pressure grows in magnitude. This may be due to that the symmetric magnetic field associated with the magnetopause current, strongly affected by the solar wind dynamic pressure, increases. However, the partial ring current is not affected as much as the magnetopause current by the solar wind dynamic pressure in TS-04 model. Thus, our observations suggest that the contribution of the partial ring current at geosynchronous orbit is much larger than that expected from TS-04 model as the solar wind dynamic pressure increases.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
• /
• 제4권6호
• /
• pp.701-709
• /
• 2017

One of the components that used in the satellite thermal control subsystem is the Mechanically Pumped Fluid Loop (MPFL) system; this system mostly used in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellites, and can transfer heat from a hot point to a cold point using the fluid which circulated in a closed loop. Heat radiates to the deep space at the cold plate to cool down the fluid temperature. In this research, the radiative heatexchanger (RHX) for a MPFL system is optimized. The genetic algorithm has been used for minimizing the total mass and pressure drop by considering a constant transferred heat rate at the heat exchanger. The optimization has been done in two cases. In case I, two parameters are considered as a goal function, so optimization is performed using NSGA-II method. Results of optimization are shown in the pareto diagram. In case II, the diameter of pipe is considered constant, so the optimized value for distances of the parallel pipes is obtained by using the genetic algorithm, in which the system has the least total mass. Results show that in the RHX, by increasing the pipe diameter, pressure drop decreases and total mass increases. Also by considering a constant value for pipe diameter, an optimum distance between pipes and pipe length are obtained in which the system has a minimum mass.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
• /
• 제32권3호
• /
• pp.201-207
• /
• 2015

An algorithm to automatically extract coordinate and time information from optical observation data of geostationary orbit satellites (GEO satellites) or geosynchronous orbit satellites (GOS satellites) is developed. The optical wide-field patrol system is capable of automatic observation using a pre-arranged schedule. Therefore, if this type of automatic analysis algorithm is available, daily unmanned monitoring of GEO satellites can be possible. For data acquisition for development, the COMS1 satellite was observed with 1-s exposure time and 1-m interval. The images were grouped and processed in terms of "action", and each action was composed of six or nine successive images. First, a reference image with the best quality in one action was selected. Next, the rest of the images in the action were geometrically transformed to fit in the horizontal coordinate system (expressed in azimuthal angle and elevation) of the reference image. Then, these images were median-combined to retain only the possible non-moving GEO candidates. By reverting the coordinate transformation of the positions of these GEO satellite candidates, the final coordinates could be calculated.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
• /
• 제26권4호
• /
• pp.521-528
• /
• 2009

우주 환경이 인공위성의 오동작에 영향을 미친다는 사설은 이미 잘 알려진 것이지만, 구체적으로 인공위성의 오동작이 발생하였을 경우, 이것을 우주 환경에 의한 영향이라고 주장하기는 쉽지 않다. 이는 위성의 오동작 증상이 다양할 뿐만 아니라, 오동작 증상을 재현하는 것이 거의 불가능하기 때문이다. 이 연구에서는 이러한 위성의 오동작을 통계적으로 분석하여 어떠한 경우에 위성의 오동작이 발생할 확률이 높아지는지 찾고자 하였다. 특히 많은 비용이 소요되며 활용도가 높은 지구 정지 궤도 위성의 오동작 경향을 분석함으로써 위성 운용자에게 유용한 정보를 제공하고자 하였다. Satellite News Digest사에서 제공하는 1997년부터 2008년까지의 위성 오동작 자료를 분석하였는데, 분석 결과 지구 정지 궤도 인공위성은 Kp 지수와는 큰 상관관계를 가지지 않았으며, 봄과 가을에 그리고 자정부터 새벽 시간대에 오동작이 발생할 확률이 높음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 지구 정지 궤도에서의 고에너지 전자의 밀도가 높아질수록 위성의 오동작이 많이 발생했는데, 이러한 경향은 태양 활동 극대기일 때 보다는 극소기 일 때 더 잘 나타났다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
• /
• 제23권3호
• /
• pp.318-325
• /
• 2019

다광역성과 고효율을 장점으로 하는 위성 통신 기술의 진화함에 따라, 위성 간의 간격과 주파수 자원의 제약으로 인해 보다 효율적인 위성방송 서비스에 대한 요구가 증가하고 있다. 최근에 하나의 리플렉터를 사용하여 동일한 수의 이전 수신 채널을 유지하면서 여러 위성으로 부터 여러 대역의 신호를 동시에 수신할 수 있는 안테나에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 위성들로부터 전송되는 Ku band (12 ~ 18GHz) 와 Ka band (18 ~ 30GHz) 위성 신호가 반사체를 통해 반사되어 유입될 때, 단일체로 구성된 3개의 피드 혼을 통합한 하나의 피드 혼으로 구성된 안테나를 제안한다. 안테나 설계 및 특성 시뮬레이션은 상용 프로그램인 TICRA사의 CHAMP와 CST사(社)의 Microwave Studio를 사용하였다. 제작한 안테나는 Ku band 대역과 Ka band 대역에서 각각 -10 dB 이하, 40 dBi 이상의 반사손실 특성과 안테나 이득을 나타내었다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
• /
• 제22권2호
• /
• pp.175-186
• /
• 2005

본 논문에서는 정지궤도 통신위성인 무궁화위성 3호 버스 시스템을 모델로 하여 확장칼만필터를 이용한 자세결정 알고리즘을 개발하고 그 설계 결과를 시뮬레이션을 통해 제시하였다. 특히, 정확한 추정을 위한 칼만필터의 필터 이득을 결정하기 위해서는 초기에 입력된 추정변수들의 값에 변동이 없는 상황을 가정하게 되는데 본 연구에서는 2Hz 로 자세제어도 동시에 수행하면서 필터이득을 구하여 추정변수들의 값에 변동이 있는 상황에서도 필터가 정상적으로 동작됨을 보였다. 최종적으로 필터를 사용하지 않은 경우와 사용한 경우를 고려하여 4축 자이로의 각 바이어스가 있는 경우 및 개별적으로 자이로가 고장이 난 경우의 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 설계된 필터가 자이로 이상상태를 대처할 수 있음을 검증하였다.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
• /
• 한국우주과학회 2003년도 한국우주과학회보 제12권2호
• /
• pp.36-36
• /
• 2003

While it is presumed that substorm injection electrons of a few hundred keV are the seeds for relativistic electrons frequently observed during the recovery phase of storms, correlation between the two events has not been well explored with the observed satellite data. We would like to address this problem in the present paper using the data from the geosynchronous GOES and LANL satellites as well as from the polar orbiting NOAA satellites. Our statistical study shows the two channels of LANL SOPA instrument, 105 150 keV and 150 225 keV, best correlates with the increase of the flux levels of GOES relativistic electrons. Especially, the relativistic electron events are not observed when the flux levels of these two channels are maintained low in the substorm injections, regardless of the level of the ULF activities. The conclusion does not change whether the substorm injections occur . during the storm recovery phase or during the non-storm time. As the ULF waves are observed quite frequently over the entire range of L=4 to L=7, the reason why REEs are seen mostly during the storm time seems to be related to the fact that storm-time substorms produce more seed electrons than the substorms that occur during the non-storm time.

• 전자통신동향분석
• /
• 제34권6호
• /
• pp.51-60
• /
• 2019

As a way to further expand and enable the 5G ecosystem, the $3^{rd}$ Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is considering the development of a 5G new radio (NR)-based non-terrestrial network (NTN). These NTNs are expected to provide ubiquitous 5G services to user's equipment (especially, in Internet of Things/machine-type communications (IoT/MTC) public safety, and critical communications) by extending service coverage to areas not covered by 5G terrestrial networks. To this end, this NTN is developing scenarios to provide 5G services using spaceborne vehicles, such as geosynchronous and low-Earth orbit satellites, and airborne vehicles, such as unmanned aircraft systems, including high-altitude pseudo-satellites. In addition, various technologies are being studied to satisfy new requirements not considered in 5G NR, such as long propagation delay time, large cell coverage, large Doppler effect, and base station movement. In this paper, we present the scenarios, requirements, technical issues and solutions, and standardization planning for NR-based NTN in 3GPP.