• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.57-62
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• 2015

The satellite orbit is continuously changing due to space environment. Especially for low earth orbit, atmospheric drag plays an important role in the orbit altitude decay. Recently, solar activities are expected to be high, and relevant events are occurring frequently. In this paper, analysis on the impact of geomagnetic storm on LEO satellite orbit is presented. For this, real flight data of KOMPSAT-2, KOMPSAT-3, and KOMPSAT-5 are analyzed by using the daily decay rate of mean altitude is calculated from the orbit determination. In addition, the relationship between the solar flux and geomagnetic index, which are the metrics for solar activities, is statistically analyzed with respect to the altitude decay. The accuracy of orbit prediction with both the fixed drag coefficient and estimated one is examined with the precise orbit data as a reference. The main results shows that the improved accuracy can be achieved in case of using estimated drag coefficient.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제48권10호
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• pp.791-799
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• 2020

2019년 10월 발사된 Northrop Grumman사의 MEV-1(Mission Extenstion Vehicle)은 세계 최초의 무인임무로서 궤도상 유지보수(On-Orbit Servicing)가 실질적으로 가능함을 보였다. 물론 궤도상 유지보수 임무는 수십 년 전부터 제안된 개념으로 운영 중인 위성에 대한 궤도수정 및 유지, 추진제/장비 보급 및 업그레이드, 수리, 궤도상 조립 및 제작, 우주잔해 처리 등 다양한 임무개념으로 발전되고 있으며, 이번 MEV-1 임무의 성공으로 향후 세계적으로 정부기관 및 민간분야 위성사업에서의 시장이 확대될 것으로 예상된다. 궤도상 유지보수 임무는 임무의 특성상 기본적으로 고효율의 전기추진시스템의 활용은 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 전기추진시스템 중 홀추력기를 활용한 간단한 궤도상 유지보수 임무에 대한 임무해석 내용을 소개하고자 한다. 임무사례로서 정지궤도위성의 수명연장 임무에 대해 다양한 홀추력기 설계변수조합에 대한 설계공간탐색을 수행하고, 설계공간분석 및 최적화를 통해 고려하는 임무에 적합한 홀추력기의 설계 및 운용 파라미터를 제안함과 동시에 임무성능을 도출하였다. 추가적으로 현재 궤도상 유지보수 임무해석 시 개선점과 홀추력기를 활용한 우주임무해석에서의 발전방향을 고찰하였다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.145-155
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• 2021

In this work, preliminary launch opportunities from NARO Space Center to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point are analyzed. Among five different Sun-Earth Lagrange points, L1 and L2 points are selected as suitable candidates for, respectively, solar and astrophysics missions. With high fidelity dynamics models, the L1 and L2 point targeting problem is formulated regarding the location of NARO Space Center and relevant Target Interface Point (TIP) for each different launch date is derived including launch injection energy per unit mass (C3), Right ascension of the injection orbit Apoapsis Vector (RAV) and Declination of the injection orbit Apoapsis Vector (DAV). Potential launch periods to achieve L1 and L2 transfer trajectory are also investigated regarding coasting characteristics from NARO Space Center. The magnitude of the Lagrange Orbit Insertion (LOI) burn, as well as the Orbit Maintenance (OM) maneuver to maintain more than one year of mission orbit around the Lagrange points, is also derived as an example. Even the current work has been made under many assumptions as there are no specific mission goals currently defined yet, so results from the current work could be a good starting point to extend diversities of future Korean deep-space missions.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.447-454
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• 2016

우주파편의 증가는 지구궤도 환경을 날이 갈수록 복잡하게 만들고 있고 우주상황인식(SSA)의 중요성은 날로 높아지고 있다. 우주상황인식의 필수적인 분야인 우주물체 감시 및 추적은 미국과 유럽을 비롯한 세계 각국에서 활발히 연구가 진행되고 있으며, 레이더는 우주물체 감시 및 추적에 중추적인 역할을 하는 센서이다. 한국은 현재 다목적실용위성 등 다수의 저궤도위성을 운영 중이지만, 위성과 우주물체간의 충돌 감시를 위한 전용레이더는 보유하고 있지 않다. 하지만 한국항공우주연구원 나로우주센터는 발사체 궤적을 추적하기 위한 레이더를 고흥과 제주에 각각 운영하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 나로호 발사체 추적레이더를 국제우주정거장 추적에 사용하기 위해 운용개념을 개발한 내용과 국제우주정거장을 추적한 내용을 기술한다. 또한 추적결과 획득한 레이더 데이터를 이용하여 국제우주정거장을 궤도결정한 내용을 기술하고 TLE와 비교하여 궤도결정의 유효성을 분석하였다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.240-252
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• 2016

In this paper, an on-board orbit propagator and compressing trajectory method based on B-spline for a lunar explorer are proposed. An explorer should recognize its own orbit for a successful mission operation. Generally, orbit determination is periodically performed at the ground station, and the computed orbit information is subsequently uploaded to the explorer, which would generate a heavy workload for the ground station and the explorer. A high-performance computer at the ground station is employed to determine the orbit required for the explorer in the parking orbit of Earth. The method not only reduces the workload of the ground station and the explorer, but also increases the orbital prediction accuracy. Then, the data was compressed into coefficients within a given tolerance using B-spline. The compressed data is then transmitted to the explorer efficiently. The data compression is maximized using the proposed methods. The methods are compared with a fifth order polynomial regression method. The results show that the proposed method has the potential for expansion to various deep space probes.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.1
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• pp.505-510
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• 2006

SVLBI (Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry) has some important potential applications in geodesy and geodynamics, for which one of the most difficult tasks is to precisely determine the orbit of SVLBI satellite. This paper studies several technologies which possibly will be able to determine the orbit of space VLBI satellite. And then, according to the sorts and characteristicsof satellite and the requirements for geodetic study and the geometry of GNSS (GPS, GALILEO) satellite to track the space VLBI satellite, the six Keplerian elements of SVLBI satellite (TEST-SVLBI) are determined. A program is designed to analyze the coverage area of the space of different heights by the stations of the network, with which the tracking network of TEST-SVLBI is designed. The efficiency of tracking TEST-SVLBI by the network is studied, and the results are presented.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2002

General along-track acceleration was estimated in the KOMPSAT-1 orbit determination process. Several sets of the atmospheric drag and solar radiation pressure coefficients were also derived with the different spacecraft area. State vectors in the orbit determination with the different spacecraft area were compared in the time frame. The orbit prediction using the estimated coefficients was performed and compared with the orbit determination results. The orbit prediction with the different general acceleration values was also carried out for the comparison

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2005년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2005
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• pp.87-90
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• 2005

The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC mission is a micro satellite mission to deploy a constellation of six micro satellites at low Earth orbits. The final mission orbit is of an altitude of 750-800 lan. It is a collaborative Taiwan-USA science experiment. Each satellite consists of three science payloads in which the GPS occultation experiment (GOX) payload will collect the GPS signals for the studies of meteorology, climate, space weather, and geodesy. The GOX onboard FORMOSAT -3 is designed as a GPS receiver with 4 antennas. The fore and aft limb antennas are installed on the front and back sides, respectively, and as well as the two precise orbit determination (POD) antennas. The precise orbit information is needed for both the occultation inversion and geodetic research. However, the instrument associated errors, such as the antenna phase center offset and even the different cable delay due to the geometric configuration of fore- and aft-positions of the POD antennas produce error on the orbit. Thus, the focus of this study is to investigate the impact of POD antenna parameter on the determination of precise satellite orbit. Furthermore, the effect of the accuracy of the determined satellite orbit on the retrieved atmospheric and ionospheric parameters is also examined. The CHAMP data, the FORMOSAT-3 satellite and orbit parameters, the Bernese 5.0 software, and the occultation data processing system are used in this work. The results show that 8 cm error on the POD antenna phase center can result in ~8 cm bias on the determined orbit and subsequently cause 0.2 K deviation on the retrieved atmospheric temperature at altitudes above 10 lan.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.888-890
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• 2003

The objective of this investigation is to establish a simple yet effective block adjustment procedure for the orthorectification of multi-orbit satellite images. The major works of the proposed scheme are: (1) adjustment of satellite‘s orbit accurately, (2) calculation of the error vectors for each tie point using digital terrain model and ray tracing technique, (3) refining the orbit using the Least Squares Filtering technique and (4) generation of the orthophotos. In the process of least squares filtering, we use the residual vectors on ground control points and tie points to collocate the orbit. In orthorectification, we use the indirect method to generate the orthoimage. Test areas cover northern Taiwan. Test images are from SPOT 5 satellite. Experimental results indicate that proposed method improves the relative accuracy significantly.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2018

Pc1 pulsations are geomagnetic fluctuations in the frequency range of 0.2 to 5 Hz. There have been several observations of Pc1 pulsations in low earth orbit by MAGSAT, DE-2, Viking, Freja, CHAMP, and SWARM satellites. However, there has been a clear limitation in resolving the spatial and temporal variations of the pulsation by using a single-point observation by a single satellite. To overcome such limitations of previous observations, a new space mission was recently initiated, using the concept of multi-satellites, named the Small scale magNetospheric and Ionospheric Plasma Experiments (SNIPE). The SNIPE mission consists of four nanosatellites (~10 kg), which will be launched into a polar orbit at an altitude of 600 km (TBD) in 2020. Four satellites will be deployed in orbit, and the distances between each satellite will be controlled from 10 to 1,000 km by a high-end formation-flying algorithm. One of the possible science targets of the SNIPE mission is observing electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves. In this paper, we report on examples of observations, showing the limitations of previous EMIC observations in low earth orbit, and suggest possibilities to overcome those limitations through a new mission.