• Title/Summary/Keyword: Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit

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GEO-KOMPSAT-2 LAE Burn Plan in Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit (정지궤도복합위성의 SSTO 액체원지점엔진 점화계획)

  • Park, Bong-Kyu;Choi, Jae-Dong
    • Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.122-130
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    • 2014
  • GEO-KOMPSAT-2 which is under development by KARI to be launched in 2018 is expected to be injected into its orbit through the standard GTO(Geostationary Transfer Orbit) or SSTO(Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit). While the standard GTO mission has been applied for the most of the geostationary satellites, the SSTO mission is rare case and significantly different from the standard GTO mission in technical point of view. This paper lists the operational constraints to be applied for GEO-KOMPSAT-2 SSTO mission, and introduces a preliminary LAE burn plan for GEO-KOMPSAT-2 mission. In order to evaluate the developed plan, a simulation study has been performed considering ground station visibility.