• 한국측량학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.129-138
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• 2009

달 중력장은 달의 내부구조와 이분성 및 마그마 바다의 분화 진화과정을 이해하고, 더 나아가 달의 기원과 진화를 규명하기 위한 중요한 자료이다. 본 연구에서는 달 탐사의 역사와 달의 중력장 탐지 및 중력장모델의 발전과정을 고찰하였으며, 최근에 임무를 종료한 일본의 SELENE위성의 관측방식을 소개하고, SELENE위성의 궤도추적자료를 처리하여 개발된 달 중력장모델 SGM90d(SELENE Gravity Model)를 이용해 달 전체의 중력이상을 결정하였으며, 기존의 달 중력장 모델인 LP165P모델과 비교분석을 수행하였다. SGM90d를 분석해 본 결과, SELENE위성의 4중 도플러 관측방식은 달 뒷면의 중력장 직접 관측에 매우 효과적이었으며, 달 뒷면 중력장의 최초 결정은 달의 메스콘과 같은 중력이상의 상세한 분포를 확인하고 달의 이분성을 이해하는데 큰 도움이 되었다.

• 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.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.285-294
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• 2014

The uneven mass distribution of the Moon highly perturbs the lunar spacecrafts. This uneven mass distribution leads to peculiar dynamical features of the lunar orbiters. The critical inclination is the value of inclination which keeps the deviation of the argument of pericentre from the initial values to be zero. Considerable investigations have been performed for critical inclination when the gravity field is assumed to be symmetric around the equator, namely for oblate gravity field to which Earth's satellites are most likely to be subjected. But in the case of a lunar orbiter, the gravity field of mass distribution is rather asymmetric, that is, sectorial, and tesseral, harmonic coefficients are big enough so they can't be neglected. In the present work, the effects of the first sectorial and tesseral harmonic coefficients in addition to the first zonal harmonic coefficients on the critical inclination of a lunar artificial satellite are investigated. The study is carried out using the Hamiltonian framework. The Hamiltonian of the problem is cconstructed and the short periodic terms are eliminated using Delaunay canonical variables. Considering the above perturbations, numerical simulations for a hypothetical lunar orbiter are presented. Finally, this study reveals that the critical inclination is quite different from the critical inclination of traditional sense and/or even has multiple solutions. Consequently, different families of critical inclination are obtained and analyzed.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2008년도 한국우주과학회보 제17권2호
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• pp.25.3-26
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• 2008

The direct way to the moon is to start from the parking orbit by using impulsive thruster In previous domestic research, the direct way has been studied by using a single impulsive shot. However, when a single impulsive shot occurs to go into a Translunar orbit, gravity losses occur because thruster is not impulsive shot but the finite burns and it causes the gravity losses. To make up for the weak point of a single impulsive shot, this paper divides TLI (Trans Lunar Injection) into several small burns. Therefore, departure loop trajectory and the Translunar trajectory. This method is useful not only to reduce the gravity losses but also to check the condition of satellite. By using this method, this paper demostrates the optimized trajectory from Earth parking orbit to lunar mission orbit which minimizes the fuel, and the SNOPT (Sparse Nonlinear OPTimizer software) is used to find optimal solution. Also, this paper provides lunar mission profile which includes the mission schedule when TLI, LOI (Lunar Orbit Insertion) maneuvers occur, a mount of fuel when thruster is used and other mission parameters.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.41-49
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 달의 동굴에 대한 거주환경에 잠재적 요건이 될 수 있는 지질과 지형, 내부탐사, 안정성, 통신, 거주요건 등의 5분야에 대한 분석을 시도 하였다. 달 동굴관련 정성적 정량적인 자료 분석에서 다음과 같은 결과를 도출하였다. 달 동굴의 지질과 지형환경에서는 지구의 용암동굴의 규모와 형상에서 큰 차이를 확인하였다. 달의 지질은 내인적인 분화나 지진 보다 외인적인 환경인 운석의 낙하와 방사선의 공격 및 급격한 온도차에 의한 영향이 크다. 달 동굴의 지형과 내부형상은 중력의 차로 인한 대규모의 위험한 동굴지형으로 함몰구(skylight)와 사행 열구(sinuous rilles)에 대한 접근과 내부 지형형상 취득에 기술적인 한계가 있었다. 달 동굴의 안정성 분석에서는 대형의 동굴에 대한 지질과 지형적인 위험성에 두었다. 함몰에 대한 저 위험도 빈도, 저 중력, 동굴의 대규모와 두께 등의 안정성 인자 등으로 지구보다 상대적인 안정성이 확인되었다. 달 동굴내외의 통신환경은 동굴내부에서의 무선통신 운영의 경우 태양열 충전식에만 한계가 있을 것이나 전력의 무선전송기술로 이를 극복할 수 있을 것이다. 따라서 본 연구를 통하여 달 동굴에 대한 거주 가능성에 대한 학설과 기술의 대비 중에서 학술적이고 기술적인 차별성이 다양하게 확인되었다. 특히 무중력, 우주방사선의 피폭과 먼지 등의 외인적인 한계와 거칠고 급경사인 함몰구 등의 접근기술에 대한 통신과 토목 및 GIS기술 등에 대한 내인적인 한계의 극복의 필요성으로 이에 대한 향후의 연구개발에 기대감이 증폭되었다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.335-342
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• 2023

Lunar Navigation Satellite System refers to a constellation of satellite providing PNT services on the moon. LNSS consists of main satellite and navigation satellites. Navigation satellites orbiting around the moon and a main satellite moves the area between the moon and the L2 point. The navigation satellite performs the same role as the Earth's GNSS satellite, and the main satellite communicates with the Earth for time synchronization. Due to the effect of the non-uniform shape of the moon, it is necessary to focus on the influence of the lunar gravitational field when designing the orbit simulation for navigation satellite. Since the main satellite is farther away from the moon than the navigation satellite, both the earth's gravity and the moon's gravity must be considered simultaneously when designing the orbit simulation for main satellite. Therefore, the main satellite orbit simulation must be designed through the three-body problem between the Earth, the moon, and the main satellite. In this paper, the orbit simulation tool for main satellite and navigation satellite required for LNSS was designed. The orbit simulation considers the environment characteristics of the moon. As a result of comparing long-term data (180 days) with the commercial program GMAT, it was confirmed that there was an error of about 1 m.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2013

Human spaceflight experience in extra-vehicular activity (EVA) is limited to two regimes: the micro-gravity environment of Earth orbit, and the lunar surface environment at one-sixth of Earth's gravity. Future human missions to low-gravity bodies, including asteroids, comets, and the moons of Mars, will require EVA techniques that are beyond the current experience base. In order to develop robust approaches for exploring these small bodies, the dynamics associated with human exploration on low-gravity surface must be characterized. This paper examines the translational and rotational motion of an astronaut on the surface of a small body, and it is shown that the low-gravity environment will pose challenges to the surface mobility of an astronaut, unless new tools and EVA techniques are developed. Possibilities for addressing these challenges are explored, and utilization of the International Space Station to test operational concepts and hardware in preparation for a low-gravity surface EVA is discussed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.531-536
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• 2003

In this paper, a redesigned guidance and control system for a lunar lander is presented. In past studies, the authors developed a trajectory and attitude control system which achieves the vertical soft landing on the lunar surface. It is confirmed that the system has a good tracking ability to a predefined profile and good robustness against a thruster failure mode where a partial failure of clustered engines was assumed. However, under the previous control laws, the landing point tends to be shifted, in response to the system parameter values, from a target point. Also, an unbalanced moment due to a thruster failure mode was not considered in the simulation. Therefore, in this study, the downrange control is added to the system to enable the vehicle to land at a pre-assigned target point accurately. Furthermore, inhibiting the effect of the unbalanced moment is attempted thorough redesigning the attitude control system. A numerical simulation was performed to confirm the ability of the proposed system with regard to the above problems. Moreover, in the past simulations, a low initial altitude was assumed as an initial condition: in this study, however, the performance of the proposed system is examined over the whole trajectory from an initial altitude of 10 [km] to the lunar surface.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2020

Frozen orbit is an attractive option for orbital design owing to its characteristics (its argument of pericenter and eccentricity are kept constant on an average). Solar sails are attractive solutions for massive and expensive missions. However, the solar radiation pressure effect represents an additional force on the solar sail that may greatly affect its orbital behavior in the long run. Thus, this force must be included as a perturbation force in the dynamical model for more accuracy. This study shows the calculations of initial conditions for a lunar solar sail frozen orbit. The disturbing function of the problem was developed to include the lunar gravitational field that is characterized by uneven mass distribution, third body perturbation, and the effect of solar radiation. An averaging technique was used to reduce the dynamical problem to a long period system. Lagrange planetary equations were utilized to formulate the rate of change of the argument of pericenter and eccentricity. Using the reduced system, frozen orbits for the Moon sail orbiter were constructed. The resulting frozen orbits are shown by two 3Dsurface (semi-major, eccentricity, inclination) figures. To simplify the analysis, we showed inclination-eccentricity contours for different values of semi-major axis, argument of pericenter, and values of sail lightness number.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.87-93
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• 2013

달 착륙선 개념설계형상 검증모델은 한국형 달착륙선의 진보된 우주 비행체 기술들의 개발 및 검증을 위한 시험베드로서 개념설계형상을 바탕으로 달과 지구의 중력 차이를 고려하여 실제 중량의 1/6 스케일로 설계된 수직이착륙이 가능한 달착륙선의 프로토타입이다. 검증모델은 지상에 고정된 상태에서 추력기 클러스터링 시험과 가상비행시험을 수행하였다. 검증모델 지상시험은 두 달 동안 고흥항공센터 고체모터연소 시험장에서 진행했다. 검증모델의 지상시험의 목적은 비행모델 탐사선의 개발 이전에 주요 전자장비, 200N급 추진시스템, 제어 알고리즘 및 소프트웨어, 구조체의 핵심기술 및 체계운용기술 등의 전체 시스템에 대한 시연 및 검증이다. 본 논문에서는 시험형상, 시험목적 그리고 시험제반시설에 대한 기술을 포함한 가상비행시험에 대한 내용을 기술한다.