• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.347-351
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• 2014

Planetary exploration rovers are likely to make a trip on a winding and sloping road of irregular surfaces to the destination in order to accomplish scientific missions. One of the key technologies for rovers is a suspension for traveling and performing exploration missions; the suspension is an essential area of technology for a stable movement of a rover. In this study, an 8-wheel suspension is designed to enable efficient climbing of slopes on a passage to the destination. For the two front wheels among the eight wheels, the moment at the pivot connecting two wheels is derived when the distance between the wheels and the torque of wheels are same. A test experiment was performed to compare the magnitude of moment according to the change in tilt angle and the position of the pivot. Finally, a suspension design considering the position of the pivot was proposed to enhance the hill-climbing performance.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.495-504
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• 2014

태양돛은 태양 광자들의 운동량 변화를 이용하여 추력을 얻는 우주선이다. 매우 작지만 연속적인 가속도를 얻을 수 있어 태양돛은 다양한 임무를 수행할 수 있다. 효과적인 임무개발을 위해서는 태양돛의 형상, 돛의 재료 그리고 전개 장치에 따른 구조/재료적 특성뿐만 아니라 위성의 임무 궤적에 따른 자세제어 방법들을 고려해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 태양돛의 기술발전, 태양돛 제작에 필요한 소요기술 그리고 태양돛을 이용한 향후 개발가능한 위성 임무에 대하여 살펴보고자 한다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제48권10호
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• pp.765-772
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• 2020

항공기의 임무수행 시간을 연장하기 위해 도입된 공중급유를 수행하기 위해서는 두 항공기간의 랑데부 기동이 필수적으로 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 공중급유를 위해 가변 추적유도법칙을 이용한 랑데부 유도기법을 다룬다. 르야프노프 안정성 이론을 이용하여 가변 추적유도법칙 기반 랑데부 유도기법을 설계하였다. 제안한 유도기법은 두 항공기가 일정한 속력으로 비행하고 있을 때, 두 항공기 간의 헤딩각이 일치하도록 작동하여 랑데부 기동을 수행하도록 한다. 수치 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안한 랑데부 유도기법의 성능을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.247-256
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• 2015

In this work, an efficient method with which to evaluate the high-degree-and-order gravitational harmonics of the non-sphericity of a central body is described and applied to state predictions of a lunar orbiter. Unlike the work of Song et al. (2010), which used a conventional computation method to process gravitational harmonic coefficients, the current work adapted a well-known recursion formula that directly uses fully normalized associated Legendre functions to compute the acceleration due to the non-sphericity of the moon. With the formulated algorithms, the states of a lunar orbiting satellite are predicted and its performance is validated in comparisons with solutions obtained from STK/Astrogator. The predicted differences in the orbital states between STK/Astrogator and the current work all remain at a position of less than 1 m with velocity accuracy levels of less than 1 mm/s, even with different orbital inclinations. The effectiveness of the current algorithm, in terms of both the computation time and the degree of accuracy degradation, is also shown in comparisons with results obtained from earlier work. It is expected that the proposed algorithm can be used as a foundation for the development of an operational flight dynamics subsystem for future lunar exploration missions by Korea. It can also be used to analyze missions which require very close operations to the moon.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제39권11호
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• pp.1042-1051
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 복수 무인기의 편대 비행을 위한 탑재 무선 통신 및 임무통제 네트워크 (지상관제시스템)를 포함하는 통합 운영 시스템의 구성 방안을 제시한다. 이를 위해 편대비행을 위한 무인기에 탑재되는 시스템들의 구성 형태에 따라 다양한 운영 시스템들을 분류하였다. 또한 각각의 운영 시스템에 대한 장단점 및 고장에 대한 신뢰성을 파악하였다. 이 결과를 바탕으로 편대기의 임무비행을 수행하는데 있어 적절한 운영 시스템의 형태를 결정하고 구성 요소들을 개발하였다. 제안된 운영 시스템을 이용하면, 이종의 비행체로 편대를 구성할 수 있으며, 복잡한 임무를 여러 무인기에 나누어 수행 가능하고, 단일 임무의 협업 또는 다양한 임무의 동시 수행이 가능하다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.64-75
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• 2005

The Stratospheric Airship Platform (SAP) has a capability of performing the autonomous and guidance flight to satisfy given missions. To be used as the High Altitude Platforms (HAPs), the capabilities of controlling platform's accurate position and keeping the station point are the most important features. Under this circumstances Autonomous Flight Control System (AFCS) is a critical system and plays a key role in achieving the given requirements and succeeding in missions. In this paper, the design and analysis results of the AFCS algorithms and controller are presented. The brief summary of the AFCS hardware structure is also explained. The autopilot controller and guidance logics were designed based on the linear dynamics of the unmanned airship platform and the full nonlinear dynamics was considered to evaluate and verify their performances.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.271-290
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• 2020

The paper describes the analysis of deployment strategies and trajectories design suitable for executing the inspection of an operative spacecraft in orbit through re-usable CubeSats. Similar missions have been though indeed, and one mission recently flew from the International Space Station. However, it is important to underline that the inspection of an operative spacecraft in orbit features some peculiar characteristics which have not been demonstrated by any mission flown to date. The most critical aspects of the CubeSat inspection mission stem from safety issues and technology availability in the following areas: trajectory design and motion control of the inspector relative to the target, communications architecture, deployment and retrieval of the inspector, and observation needs. The objectives of the present study are 1) the identification of requirements applicable to the deployment of a nanosatellite from the mother-craft, which is also the subject of the inspection, and 2) the identification of solutions for the trajectories to be flown along the mission phases. The mission for the in-situ observation of Space Rider is proposed as reference case, but the conclusions are applicable to other targets such as the ISS, and they might also be useful for missions targeted at debris inspection.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2005년도 한국우주과학회보 제14권2호
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• pp.63-63
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• 2005

• 천문학회보
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.57.2-57.2
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• 2019

The NISS (Near-infrared Imaging Spectrometer for Star formation history) onboard NEXTSat-1 was successfully launched on last December and is now under the operation phase. The capability of both imaging and spectroscopy is a unique function of the NISS. It has realized the imaging spectroscopy (R~20) with a wide field of view of $2{\times}2deg$. in a wide near-infrared range from 0.95 to $2.5{\mu}m$. The major scientific mission is to study the cosmic star formation history in the local and distant universe. It also demonstrated the space technologies related to the infrared spectro-photometry in space. The NISS is performing the imaging spectroscopic survey for local star-forming galaxies, clusters of galaxies, star-forming regions, ecliptic deep fields and so on. As an extension of the NISS, the SPEHREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) was selected as the NASA MIDEX (Medium-class Explorer) mission (PI Institute: Caltech). As an international partner, KASI will participate in the development and the science for SPHEREx. It will perform the first all-sky infrared spectro-photometric survey to probe the origin of our Universe, to explore the origin and evolution of galaxies, and to explore whether planets around other stars could harbor life. Compared to the NISS, the SPHEREx is designed to have a much wider FoV of $3.5{\times}11.3deg$. as well as wider spectral range from 0.75 to $5.0{\mu}m$. Here, we introduce the status of the two space missions.

• 천문학회보
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.47.1-47.1
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• 2018

The NISS (Near-infrared Imaging Spectrometer for Star formation history) onboard NEXTSat-1 have successfully developed by KASI. The capability of both imaging and spectroscopy is a unique function of the NISS. At first, it have realized the low-resolution spectroscopy (R~20) with a wide field of view of $2{\times}2deg$. in a wide near-infrared range from 0.95 to $2.5{\mu}m$. The major scientific mission is to study the cosmic star formation history in local and distant universe. It will also demonstrate the space technologies related to the infrared spectro-photometry in space. Now, the NISS is ready to launch in late 2018. After the launch, the NISS will be operated during 2 years. As an extension of the NISS, the SPEHREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) is the NASA MIDEX (Medium-class Explorer) mission proposed together with KASI (PI Institute: Caltech). It will perform the first all-sky infrared spectro-photometric survey to probe the origin of our Universe, to explore the origin and evolution of galaxies, and to explore whether planets around other stars could harbor life. Compared to the NISS, the SPHEREx is designed to have much more wide FoV of $3.5{\times}11.3deg$. as well as wide spectral range from 0.75 to $5.0{\mu}m$. After passing the first selection process, the SPHEREx is under the Phase-A study. The final selection will be made in the end of 2018. Here, we report the status of the NISS and SPHEREx missions.