• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.375-378
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• 2010

Hot and high speed plume exhausted during KSLV-I flight test is cooled down by an amount of water ejected from 'gas deflector cooling system' of launch complex to reduce the effects on the launch vehicle and launch complex. In this study, simplified axisymmetric computational calculation with 2-phase is carried out to analysis the water injection effects on flow field.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.598-602
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• 2017

Korea Aerospace Research Institute has been developing 3-stage launcher KSLV-II, which can inject 1.5-ton satellite into sun synchronous orbit (SSO). For development process, Test Launch Vehicle(TLV) adopting the $2^{nd}$ and $3^{rd}$ stage of KSLV-II will be scheduled to launch in 2018. The propulsion system of TLV is composed of $2^{nd}$ stage engine system (ground type) and propellant supply system including LOX, Kerosene tanks. Until now, system integration of engineering model of TLV and delivery of qualification model have been done. In this paper, the product assurance activities for propulsion system KSLV-II will be illustrated.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.180-187
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• 2007

Korea Aerospace Research Institute(KARI) is developing Korea Space Launch Vehicle(KSLV). KSLV-I is composed of liquid propulsion system for the first stage and apogee kick motor as the second stage. Kick motor has a high expansion ratio nozzle and its starting altitude is 300km high. To verify the performance of kick motor, high altitude test facility (HATF) to simulate its operating condition is necessary. This paper contains preliminary design for construction of HATF.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.171-179
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• 2007

The Test Equipment for the upper stage of KSLV-I has following functions via umbilical cable interface; external power supply, command output such as discrete and analog, data acquisition, CS-I interface simulation for first stage of KSLV-I and RS-422 serial communication for PDU. The main purpose of UTE is the experiment or function verification of system-level upper stage. To realize this system, we used PXI control system. The UTE is consisted of the PXI control system, power supply, terminal block, internal harness, connector panel and so on. The software functions of UTE are classified by four blocks. These are Discrete/Analog I/O control, PDU RS-422 serial communication control, power supply GPIB control and UTE remote control. In this paper, we will describe the design on the hardware and software of UTE.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.49-54
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• 2014

The main purpose of Korea Space Launch Vehicle II(KSLV-II) Program is to develop a domestic launch vehicle that can deliver a 1.5ton class application satellite into a Low Earth Orbit(600~800km). The data management is an essential factor in systems engineering for success of large-scale complex systems development, and it systematically manages the information and technical data for the total life-cycle of a system. In this paper, data management policies and processes on KSLV-II program are presented, and product life-cycle management system for KSLV-II program is also presented.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.111-118
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• 2007

KSLV-I which is being developed in KARI is composed with two stages, and adaptor ring is used for coupling stage. Cables for interconnecting between stage is exposed on the outside. Also 8 pyro bolts which are installed in adaptor ring are used for separation of stage. In general, cowl is used for protecting exposed parts or structure which are anxious about damage from outer environment. In KSLV-I, two kind of cowls are designed. The one is umbilical cowl, and the other is pyro bolt cowl. Because cowl is exposed on the outside, heat and pressure load developed from air have effect on cowls. Therefore verification of structural strength through static analysis is required. In this study, static analysis in load condition except heat load is accomplished. In result of analysis, structural strength of pyro bolt cowl is verified. But breakage of umbilical cowl is confirmed in pressure load condition. So design of umbilical cowl is modified for satisfying required structural strength. And structural strength of umbilical cowl through analysis is verified.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.122-126
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• 2009

KSLV(Korea Space Launch Vehicle)-I is designed as a launch vehicle to enter a 100 kg-class satellite to the LEO(Low-Earth Orbit). Attitude angles of the upper-stage, including roll, pitch and yaw are controlled by cold gas thruster system using nitrogen gas. To verify the flow rate of the gas charging system and to prepare a nitrogen gas charging scenario, the development of a gas charging simulator for RCS(Reaction Control System) is required. This paper describes the orifice design, development, and test of the gas charging simulator for RCS of KSLV-I.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.20-29
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• 2011

There are a lot of electrical and electronic components and pneumatic parts sensitive to vibration and shock in the VEB assembly which KARI directly transports among the KSLV-I upper stage transportation items. So, the special attention in the transportation is required. The transportation container with the apparatus for controlling environment was made in order to meet the requirements. The transportation tests using the engineering model were performed 4 times to verify the performance of the transportation container and to conform the transportation conditions(transportation velocity, route, etc.). In this document, the previous transportation history of the VEB assembly, the overview and the result of the KSLV-I FM unit 2 VEB assembly transportation are described.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.119-125
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• 2007

Space launch vehicle development needs many kinds of technologies synthetically. Nowadays, KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) has developed a space launch vehicle, KSLV-I (Korea Space Launch Vehicle-I), that is able to load with an 100kg payload. After that it plans to develop Korean Space Launch Vehicle. As space launch vehicle becomes more complicate and larger, it needs a scientific and analytic development cost estimation. In this paper a cost estimation for KSLV-II using TRANSCOST 7.1 was studied.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.128-132
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• 2011

We can acquire the criteria of configuration tolerance on the Kick Motor system, KSLV-I upper stage propulsion system from the analysis results of the initial controllability on the KSLV-I upper stage. Also we can assign configuration tolerances on each subsystem from the configuration tolerance on the Kick Motor system. This article deals with the Kick Motor system configuration tolerance criteria and the results of configuration management on the both ground test models and flight test ones.