• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.30-35
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• 2017

The mechanical ground support equipment of KSLV-II launch complex is a collection of systems for transporting, erecting, lowering the launch vehicle and for providing an interface to supply propellants to the launch vehicle. In this paper, compositions, functions and design results of mechanical ground support equipment are introduced. In addition, the operation concept of each equipment along with operation procedure is presented.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.125-132
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• 2018

The mechanical ground support equipment of a Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II launch complex is a collection of systems used for transporting, erecting and lowering the launch vehicle. It also provides an interface for supplying propellants. In this paper, compositions, functions and design results of mechanical ground support equipment are introduced. Additionally, the operational concept of each piece of equipment is presented with operation procedure.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.91-97
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• 2017

The KSLV-II launch complex system consists of mechanical ground support equipment(MGSE), fuel ground support equipment(FGSE), electrical ground support equipment(EGSE) and infrastructures. Compressed gas supply system, as a part of FGSE, is responsible for launch operations such as gas intake, storage, supply to launch vehicle and ground support equipments. This system consists of three primary elements such as gas storage part, control panel and controller. Automatic panels, as a part of control panel, are manufactured to operate remotely by controller. This study presents compressed gas supply system which is designed for KSLV-II and ground support equipment characteristics.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.96-102
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• 2003

The thermal design of MGSE(Mechanical Ground Support Equipment) panel is performed for thermal vacum thest of Ka-band EQM(Engineering Qualification Model) payload of communications and broadcasting satellite. The thermal environments are predicted to evaluate the performance of transponder equipments in the thermal vacum chamber. SINDA is used to verify the thermal design of the heat pipe layout. Embedded 16 heat pipes in the EQM payload developed for Ka-band trasponder equipments are designded properly. The heat fluz loaded on the external facesheet is 265W/㎡ for the hot platear function test of the traspinder equipments, and the zero heat flux for the cold plateau case. The maxium predicted heat transport capability is 2723 W-cm.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.183.2-183.2
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• 2012

최근 인공위성의 대형화 및 중량화 추세는 종종 기존 설비 내에서의 위성체 조립 및 시험업무의 작업성과 능률성을 심각하게 저해하는 요소로 작용한다. 이에 상기 업무의 원활한 수행을 위해서는 최적화된 설계의 기계지상지원장비(Mechanical Ground Support Equipment, MGSE)의 개발 및 활용이 요구되어지며, 이는 전체 위성개발기간 동안 요구되는 모든 시험 구성, 외부 설비 및 장비와의 인터페이스, 작업자의 동선 및 접근성 등을 종합적으로 고려해야 하는 작업이다. 특히 고해상도 영상안테나와 같이 높은 수준의 정렬 조건이 부과되는 탑재체의 경우 이의 장착, 정렬 및 지상전개시험 등을 위해서는 탑재체 및 위성체의 특성을 고려한 전용 장비의 개발도 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 한국항공우주연구원이 최근 개발한 중대형급 지상관측 영상레이더 위성 개발 과제에 활용된 기계지상지원장비의 설계, 제작 및 운용 방법을 종합적으로 기술하였다.