• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.255-267
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• 2013

In this research, the ground contact opportunity for the fictitious low lunar orbiter is analyzed to prepare for a future Korean lunar orbiter mission. The ground contact opportunity is basically derived from geometrical relations between the typical ground stations at the Earth, the relative positions of the Earth and Moon, and finally, the lunar orbiter itself. Both the cut-off angle and the orbiter's Line of Sight (LOS) conditions (weather orbiter is located at near or far side of the Moon seen from the Earth) are considered to determine the ground contact opportunities. Four KOMPSAT Ground Stations (KGSs) are assumed to be Korea's future Near Earth Networks (NENs) to support lunar missions, and world-wide separated Deep Space Networks (DSNs) are also included during the contact availability analysis. As a result, it is concluded that about 138 times of contact will be made between the orbiter and the Daejeon station during 27.3 days of prediction time span. If these contact times are converted into contact duration, the duration is found to be about 8.55 days, about 31.31% of 27.3 days. It is discovered that selected four KGSs cannot provide continuous tracking of the lunar orbiter, meaning that international collaboration is necessary to track Korea's future lunar orbiter effectively. Possible combinations of world-wide separated DSNs are also suggested to compensate for the lack of contact availability with only four KGSs, as with primary and backup station concepts. The provided algorithm can be easily modified to support any type of orbit around the Moon, and therefore, the presented results could aid further progress in the design field of Korea's lunar orbiter missions.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.97-106
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• 2010

To prepare for a Korean lunar orbiter mission, a precise lunar orbit propagator; Yonsei precise lunar orbit propagator (YSPLOP) is developed. In the propagator, accelerations due to the Moon's non-spherical gravity, the point masses of the Earth, Moon, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and also, solar radiation pressures can be included. The developed propagator's performance is validated and propagation errors between YSPOLP and STK/Astrogator are found to have about maximum 4-m, in along-track direction during 30 days (Earth's time) of propagation. Also, it is found that the lifetime of a lunar polar orbiter is strongly affected by the different degrees and orders of the lunar gravity model, by a third body's gravitational attractions (especially the Earth), and by the different orbital inclinations. The reliable lifetime of circular lunar polar orbiter at about 100 km altitude is estimated to have about 160 days (Earth's time). However, to estimate the reasonable lifetime of circular lunar polar orbiter at about 100 km altitude, it is strongly recommended to consider at least $50\;{\times}\;50$ degrees and orders of the lunar gravity field. The results provided in this paper are expected to make further progress in the design fields of Korea's lunar orbiter missions.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제46권12호
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• pp.1028-1036
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• 2018

한국항공우주연구원은 달 탐사 프로젝트 1단계로 시험용 달 궤도선을 2020년 12월에 발사할 계획이다. 시험용 궤도선은 본 궤도선과 착륙선을 발사하기 이전에 미리 달 탐사 기술 확보 및 과학 데이터를 획득하기 위해 발사된다. 본 논문은 궤도선의 열설계 검증에 관한 내용을 기술하고 있다. 달 궤도선은 달의 많은 적외선 복사 때문에 지구 저궤도 위성보다 극한의 열 환경에 노출된다. 따라서 이를 고려한 열설계를 하여 궤도선 탑재 장비들의 온도를 모든 궤도에서 허용온도 범위 내로 유지해야 한다. 이를 위해 달 궤도선 열설계 검증에 필요한 지구-달 전이 궤도, 달 임무 궤도, 월식 기간에 대한 열해석을 수행하였으며, 해석 결과를 바탕으로 궤도선의 열설계가 설계 요구조건을 만족하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 유체기계공업학회 2006년 제4회 한국유체공학학술대회 논문집
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• pp.287-290
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• 2006

Orbiter mechanism has been applied to vacuum pump design for small oxygen generator where low vacuum of about 200mmHg is required. Performance of the designed vacuum pump has been numerically investigated: calculated volumetric and adiabatic efficiencies were 69.7% and 83.9%, respectively for leakage clearance of $10{\mu}m$. Total efficiency of the orbiter vacuum pump was 77.5%. At the shaft speed of 1700 rpm suction displacement volume of 6.3cc provided discharge flow at the rate of 2.3 liter/min with power consumption of 10.1Watt. Torque variation of the orbiter pump was only about 20% of that of diaphragm pump.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.28-35
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• 2006

Orbiter mechanism has been applied to vacuum pump design for small oxygen generator where low vacuum of about 200 mmHg is required. Performance of the designed vacuum pump has been numerically investigated: calculated volumetric and adiabatic efficiencies were 69.7% and 83.9%, respectively for leakage clearance of $10{\mu}m$. Total efficiency of the orbiter vacuum pump was 77.5%. At the shaft speed of 1700 rpm suction displacement volume of 6.3cc provided discharge flow at the rate of 2.3 liter/min with power consumption of 10.1Watt. Torque variation of the orbiter pump was only about 20% of that of diaphragm pump.

• 항공우주산업기술동향
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.74-81
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 최근 발사된 달 탐사 위성의 탑재체 종류와 임무를 분석하고 이를 통해 각국의 달 탐사선의 목적과 탑재체 개발동향을 알아보고자 하였다. 이를 위해, 90년대 이후 발사된 달 탐사 위성들에 실린 탑재체를 임무별로 분류한 후,각 위성 탑재체 별 성능을 분석하여 개발동향을 정리하였다.이러한 분석을 통해, 향후 국내 달 탐사 위성을 위한 임무와 활용 범위를 설정하거나 탑재체 선정 시 기초자료로 활용하고자 한다.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.96-107
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• 2014

한국항공우주연구원(이하, 항우연)은 2017년에 시험용 달 궤도선을 2020년에 달 궤도선 및 착륙선 발사를 계획하고 있다. 달 궤도선이 달 궤도 진입(LOI) 기동을 수행할 경우 온 보드에 탑재된 유한 분사 방식의 추력기를 이용하기 때문에 임무계획 단계에서 이러한 내용을 고려하여 LOI 기동 전략을 수립해야 한다. 유한 분사 모델을 이용한 LOI 기동 전략 및 요구되는 속도증분(${\Delta}V$)은 분사시점의 위성 자세, 추진체의 종류, 추력기의 추력 레벨 및 분사 시점에 따라서 달라진다. 본 논문은 해외 우주국 달 궤도선의 LOI 기동 사례를 기술하고, 이를 기반으로 한국형 달 궤도선의 LOI 기동 전략을 구체화 하였다. 또한 이와 관련된 시뮬레이션을 수행함으로써 한국형 달 궤도선에 적합한 추력 레벨 및 분사 시점 등을 도출하였다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.211-219
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• 2016

Korea's lunar exploration project includes the launching of an orbiter, a lander (including a rover), and an experimental orbiter (referred to as a lunar pathfinder). Laser altimeters have played an important scientific role in lunar, planetary, and asteroid exploration missions since their first use in 1971 onboard the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon. In this study, a laser altimeter was proposed as a scientific instrument for the Korean lunar orbiter, which will be launched by 2020, to study the global topography of the surface of the Moon and its gravitational field and to support other payloads such as a terrain mapping camera or spectral imager. This study presents the baseline design and performance model for the proposed laser altimeter. Additionally, the study discusses the expected performance based on numerical simulation results. The simulation results indicate that the design of system parameters satisfies performance requirements with respect to detection probability and range error even under unfavorable conditions.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.281-288
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• 2017

The first Korea lunar orbiter, Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), has been in development since 2016. After launch, the KPLO will execute several maneuvers to enter into the lunar mission orbit, and will then perform lunar science missions for one year. Among these maneuvers, the lunar orbit insertion (LOI) is the most critical maneuver because the KPLO will experience an extreme velocity change in the presence of the Moon's gravitational pull. However, the lunar orbiter may have a delayed LOI burn during operation due to hardware limitations and telemetry delays. This delayed burn could occur in different captured lunar orbits; in the worst case, the KPLO could fly away from the Moon. Therefore, in this study, the burn delay for the first LOI maneuver is analyzed to successfully enter the desired lunar orbit. Numerical simulations are performed to evaluate the difference between the desired and delayed lunar orbits due to a burn delay in the LOI maneuver. Based on this analysis, critical factors in the LOI maneuver, the periselene altitude and orbit period, are significantly changed and an additional delta-V in the second LOI maneuver is required as the delay burn interval increases to 10 min from the planned maneuver epoch.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2015

Korea Aerospace Research Institute(here after KARI) has a plan to launch experimental lunar orbiter in 2018, and lunar orbiter and lander in 2020. There are several ways to go to the moon. Which one is direct transfer trajectory and another one is phasing loop transfer trajectory and the other one is WSB trajectory. Regardless of the transfer trajectories, LOI maneuver is the most important maneuver of all mission sequences because if this burn is failed, it is too difficult to get into the lunar orbit in the future. This paper describes first LOI target value of foreign lunar orbiters and analyzes orbital variations of experimental lunar orbiter according to various target values. By analyzing the variation of orbiter parameter after first LOI, proper orbital period for LOI target value are recommended to meet the inclination, apoapsis and periapsis altitude constraints.