• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.94-100
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• 2023

The primary goal of any communication spacecraft is to provide communication in variety of frequency bands based on mission requirements within the Indian mainland. Some of the spacecrafts operating in S-band utilizes a 6m or larger aperture Unfurlable Antenna (UFA for S-band links and provides coverage through five or more S-band spot beams over Indian mainland area. The Unfurlable antenna is larger than the satellite and so the antenna is stowed during launch. Upon reaching the orbit, the antenna is deployed using motors. The deployment status of any deployment mechanism will be monitored and verified by the telemetered values of micro-switch position before the start of deployment, during the deployment and after the completion of the total mechanism. In addition to these micro switches, a camera onboard will be used for capturing still images during primary and secondary deployments of UFA. The proposed checkout system is realized for validating the performance of the onboard camera as part of Integrated Spacecraft Testing (IST) conducted during payload checkout operations. It is designed for acquiring the payload data of onboard camera in real-time, followed by archiving, processing and generation of images in near real-time. This paper presents the architecture, design and implementation features of the acquisition, processing and Image generation system for Camera onboard spacecraft. Subsequently this system can be deployed in missions wherever similar requirement is envisaged.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2004년도 제22회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.617-621
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• 2004

Miniaturization of subsystems including propulsion systems is recent trends in spacecraft technology. Small space vehicle propulsion is not only a technological challenge of a scaling system down, but also a combination of fundamental flow/combustion constraints. In this paper, physical constraints of micronozzle for cold gas micro-thruster are reviewed and discussed. Method to measure small thrust are also described.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2004년도 제22회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.593-596
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• 2004

We are developing a micro-solid propellant rocket array thruster for simple attitude control of a 10 kg class micro-spacecraft. The prototype has ø 0.8 mm solid propellant micro-rockets arrayed at a pitch of 1.2 mm on a 22 x 22 mm substrate. In previous studies, an impulse thrust of 4.6 x 10$^{-4}$ Ns was obtained in vacuum, but we found the problems of unacceptably low ignition success rate and incomplete combustion. This paper describes experiments to improve the ignition rate. In order to achieve this goal, we tried to solidify paste-like ignition aid (RK) on the ignition heaters with strong adhesion. To make the paste-like RK, isoamyl acetate was added to RK powder. We tested 9 rockets, but only 2 rockets were ignited with huge ignition energy. This is because the heat con-duction between the ignition heater and the RK was too low to ignite the RK, since dried RK had a lot of pores. Also, a large cavity was sometimes found just above the ignition heater.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.77-84
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• 2006

마이크로/나노 위성체 개발과 함께 위성체의 자세 제어 및 궤도 수정을 위한 마이크로 추력기의 개발이 필요하게 되었다. 다양한 마이크로 추력기들 중 가장 각광 받고 있는 마이크로 고체 추진제 추력기를 소개하고, 추력기의 구성 요소들에 관한 연구 결과를 기술하였다. 추진제 점화를 위한 마이크로 백금 점화기를 제작하여 형상 변수에 관한 성능 평가를 수행하였다. HTPB/AP 고체 추진제의 특성 연구를 수행하여, 추진제의 연소 속도를 측정하였다. 마이크로 챔버는 감광성 유리를 이방성 식각하여 제작하였으며, 최종적으로 이들 요소들을 통합하여 마이크로 고체 추진제 추력기의 연소 실험을 수행하였다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2005년도 제24회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.381-385
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• 2005

최근 우주 개발 기술은 "더 빠르고, 저렴하고, 효율적인"으로 표현할 수 있다. 이런 장치들 사이에서 마이크로 추진 장치는 필수적인 요소이다. 또한 마이크로 노즐은 마이크로 추진 장치에서 가장 중요한 부분이다. 냉가스 추력기의 경우, 마이크로 노즐은 팽창비의 변화를 통해 압축 가스내의 저장된 에너지를 운동에너지로 변환시킨다. 본 논문에서는 노즐 팽창비와 비열비에 따른 마이크로 노즐의 특성을 실험하였다. 추력은 추력 측정 장치에 부착한 스트레인게이지를 사용하여 측정하였다. 또한 실험을 통해 마이크로 노즐의 성능을 평가해보았다.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.295-318
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• 2018

This research studies thermo-elastic behavior of rotating micro discs that are employed in various micro devices such as micro gas turbines. It is assumed that material is functionally graded with a variable profile thickness, density, shear modulus and thermal expansion in terms of radius of micro disc and as a power law function. Boundary condition is considered fixed-free with uniform thermal loading and elastic field is symmetric. Using incompressible material's constitutive equation, we extract governing differential equation of four orders; to solution this equation, we utilize general differential quadrature (GDQ) method and the results are schematically pictured. The obtained result in a particular case is compared with another work and coincidence of results is shown. We will find out that surface effect tends to split micro disc's area to compressive and tensile while nonlocal parameter tries to converge different behaviors with each other; this convergence feature make FGIMs capable to resist in high temperature and so in terms of thermo-elastic behavior we can suggest, using FGIMs in micro devices such as micro turbines (under glass transition temperature).

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.828-833
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• 2011

A reaction wheel assembly(RWA) is the largest disturbance source that can induce high frequency micro-vibration on an optical payload of satellites. To ensure a tight pointing-stability budget of satellites, the RWA disturbance effect on spacecraft should be accurately analyzed and evaluated for whole design phases. For this purpose, the micro-vibration disturbance of RWA should be precisely measured. In the present study, two measurement methods on RWA micro-vibration disturbances are compared and investigated. One is a free run-down speed test and the other is a constant speed test. The micro-vibration data measured by the two methods are analyzed in terms of spectrum characteristics, static and dynamic imbalance values, and root sum square(RSS) values. The analysis results show that both methods can measure very similar results in time and frequency domains and that the free run-down speed method is more adequate in respects to wheel friction modeling, noise rejection of imbalance and RSS peak evaluation.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2004

추진 시스템을 포함해 구성요소의 소형화가 최근 위성체 기술의 경향이다. 소형위성 추진기관은 크기 축소라는 기술적 도전일 뿐만 아니라, 기본적인 유동/연소 구속조건의 결합을 보이고 있다. 본 논문에서는 냉각 가스 마이크로 추력기에서 마이크로 노즐의 물리적 구속조건에 대해 살펴보았다. 또한 미소 추력의 측정 방법에 대해서도 언급하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.695-698
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• 2004

STSAT RWA (Reaction Wheel Assembly) micro-vibration is measured using KISTLER dynamic plate that can provide the time signals of three orthogonal forces and torques simultaneously up to 400Hz. In the post-processing, measured data are evaluated with respect to the wheel spin rate in both time and frequency domains, and the static/dynamic unbalances are evaluated from the extracted first harmonic component. Also the friction torque profile at each wheel speed is estimated from the measured data. Several higher order harmonic components are observed, that comes from its rotor shape as well as the wheel bearing characteristics. One of the most peculiar characteristics of this wheel is that the dynamic properties of two radial unbalance components are much different from each other as the RWA mounting configuration on a spacecraft is different from conventional RWA mounting configuration. Rocking mode is not appeared below 400Hz for all operating speed because the wheel size is very small. The post-processed results will be used for jitter analysis of STSAT due to RWA micro-vibration.

• Composites Research
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.14-18
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• 2010

우주 구조물을 위협하는 여러 요소들 중 MMOD(MicroMeteoroid and Orbital Debris)는 약 8~70km/s의 속도로 우주 구조물과 충돌하여 큰 피해를 주고 있다. 이러한 피해로부터 우주 구조물을 보호하기 위해서 현재 다양한 위플 쉴드가 연구, 적용되고 있다. 위플 쉴드에는 알루미늄이 주로 사용되고 있지만, 복합재료의 시용도 증가하고 있어 본 연구에서는 알루미늄과 복합 재료의 초고속 충돌 특성을 유한 요소 해석을 통해 비교하였다. 충격체는 직경 5.5mm인 알루미늄 2017-T4의 구를 사용하였고, 알루미늄 평판은 6061-T6, CFRP 평판은 T300/5208을 사용하였다. 충격체의 초기 충돌 속도는 1km/s이다. 충돌 후 충격체의 운동에너지는 알루미늄 평판의 경우 약 64J 감소하였고, CFRP 평판의 경우 약 63J 감소하였다. 비슷한 충돌 에너지 흡수 정도를 보이고 있지만, 밀도를 비교해 보았을 때 CFRP가 약 1.7배 가볍기 때문에 방탄 특성이 더 좋다고 할 수 있다.