• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.61-70
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• 2005

The currently developed propulsion system(PS) is composed of propellant tank, valves, thrusters, interconnecting line assembly and thermal hardwares to prevent propellant freezing in the space environment. Comprehensive engineering analyses in the structure, thermal, flow and plume fields are performed to evaluate main design parameters and to verify their suitabilities concurrently at the design phase. The integrated PS has undergone a series of acceptance tests to verify workmanship, performance, and functionality prior to spacecraft level integration. After all the processes of assembly, integration and test are completed, the PS is integrated with the satellite bus system successfully. At present, the severe environmental tests have been carried out to evaluate functionality performances of satellite bus system. This paper summarizes an overall development process of monopropellant propulsion system for the attitude and orbit control of LEO(Low Earth Orbit) observation satellite from the design engineering up to the integration and test.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.133-142
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• 1995

We studied the nonlinear estimation problem of extended Kalman filter and appled this method to LEO satellite system. Through this method the performance of extended Kalman filter was analyzed. There were certain presumption taken; J2 and atmospheric drag were simply considered in the dynamic model of LEO satellite and the system noise error of $\sigma_r$=150m, $\sigma_r$=10m/s was presumed in the observation data. As results of this simulation, the overall state estimation errors of extended Kalman filter were within the presumed error range and also the ability of performance was maximized when the condition was the state process noise Q has the 1/10 level of covariance matrix Po.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.474-483
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• 2012

In this paper, a collision avoidance maneuver was sought for low Earth orbit (LEO) and geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) satellites maintained in a keeping area. A genetic algorithm was used to obtain both the maneuver start time and the delta-V to reduce the probability of collision with uncontrolled space objects or debris. Numerical simulations demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed algorithm for both LEO satellites and GEO satellites.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.83-86
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• 2004

Likewise all that of the propulsion system, development of Propulsion System for LEO Satellite is laborous tasks to surmount technical barriers of the advanced countries as well as to satisfy the requirements of evolving satellites and changes of functions, structures and etc. Those will be presented and discussed here that the process of technical approach to have developed the KOMPSAT propulsion system, and some challenging area to overcome to develop future LEO satellite propulsion system.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.103-107
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• 2017

The Satellite OBC(On Board Computer) manages critical functionality such as satellite attitude control, fault management, payload management, command/telemetry processing etc. The OBC consist of various modules. Each module perform mission critical operation. So all modules designed as hot or cold redundancy architecture. The redundancy design gives a guarantee high reliability and it allows normal operation of satellite using reconfiguration capability. In this paper, introduces reconfiguration unit operation and describe the results of testing in the ETB.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.10A
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• pp.1521-1528
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• 2000

In this paper we analyze the performance of a DS/CDMA system in LEO mobile satellite channels. The channel uses the Extended Suzuki model which is the product of a Rician distribution having a LOS component and a lognormal distribution due to shadowing. We assume that the signal transmitted from the satellite to the mobile undergoes the same fading for the whole coverage of signal's beam. The average bit error probabilities of double coverage system is calculated in this paper. The interference resulting from the reference satellite is calculated for mobile located in the middle of the double coverage region whereas the additive interference from next-satellite is included for mobile located in the edge of the double coverage region. The performance of the mobile's receiving signal is dependent on shadowing and the interference of the next-satellite. We can obtain an obtain an improved average bit error probability by using dual diversity over the conventional correlated receiver for similar shadowing conditions in the coverage area of the satellite channel.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.57-62
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• 2010

SAR payload of LEO satellite will consume about 150A current. This high current makes the voltage drop between battery, satellite main bus and payload interface, which cannot guarantee the input voltage level of the satellite electrical unit and payload. So, it is necessary to predict the main bus and payload input voltage level when the payload works. In this paper, the worst case analysis of the harness and contact resistance was executed and predicted the voltage drop when the payload works.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.45-50
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• 2005

To determine precise position GPS carrier phase measurements are used. In addition, the multi-antenna system consisting of 2 or more GPS antennas can make attitude determination effectively. When GPS carrier phase measurements are used the integer ambiguity must be fixed. The success rate is used to validate the integer ambiguity. For LEO satellite attitude determination the double difference carrier phase measurements are used, the success rate is calculated using the covariance matrix and the measurement matrix. The constraint that LEO satellite position vector and attitude vector is orthogonal is suggested for improving the success rate. The LEO satellite orbit model is KITSAT3. The results of the simulation are shown and analyzed.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.52-55
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• 2011

We discuss the effect of stray light on a high-precision camera in an LEO(Low Earth Orbit) satellite. The critical objects and illumination objects were sorted to discover the stray light sources in the optical system. Scatter modeling was applied to determine a noise effect on the surface of a detector, and the relative flux of a signal and noise were also calculated. The stable range of reflectivity of the beam splitter was estimated for various scattering models.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.176-184
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• 2010

The power simulator for a LEO satellite is a useful tool to analyze mission validity and energy balance for various mission scenarios by estimating power generation, power consumption, depth of discharge, bus voltage, charging/discharging current, etc. In this paper, it is described the calculation algorithm of the solar array (SA) power, the satellite load power and the battery modeling method to develop a satellite power simulation. To simulate the SA power generation, three different operation modes (DET, MPPT, CV) of SAR (Solar Array Regulator) are considered with a SA model. The satellite load power is estimated using the satellite unit power database, the unit on/off configuration at some satellite operation modes. The bus voltage and battery charging/discharging current at the specific DoD (Depth of Discharge) are calculated based on the battery characteristics. By this satellite power simulator, it can be conveniently analyzed the energy balance and the validity of a planned mission of a LEO satellite.