• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.55-74
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• 2007

When the People's Republic of China destroyed one of its own defunct meteorological satellites, the Fengyun-1C, at an altitude of some 865 km above the earth's surface, the PRC was accused of initiating, or at the very least risking an(other) arms race in outer space also. The test also gave rise to a few legal questions as to the permissibility of this test, and the broader permissibility of using space for military and other weapon-touting activities, Whilst the test cannot be considered to constitute a direct threat to international peace and security so as to invoke relevant legal principles and consequences in terms of the UN Charter for example, it highlights the importance of such clauses in international space law as requiring international cooperation and consultation, due regard for the interests of all other countries both on earth and in outer space, and the further development of general regimes of registration and space debris-prevention. From that perspective, the PRC violated international outer space law not so much by the test itself but by the accompanying lack of information, consultation and due regard for other states', and indeed mankind's, interests.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제spc호
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• pp.181-199
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• 2007

When the People's Republic of China destroyed one of its own defunct meteorological satellites, the Fengyun-1C, at an altitude of some 865 km above the earth's surface, the PRC was accused of initiating, or at the very least risking an(other) arms race in outer space also. The test also gave rise to a few legal questions as to the permissibility of this test, and the broader permissibility of using space for military and other weapon-touting activities, Whilst the test cannot be considered to constitute a direct threat to international peace and security so as to invoke relevant legal principles and consequences in terms of the UN Charter for example, it highlights the importance of such clauses in international space law as requiring international cooperation and consultation, due regard for the interests of all other countries both on earth and in outer space, and the further development of general regimes of registration and space debris-prevention. From that perspective, the PRC violated international outer space law not so much by the test itself but by the accompanying lack of information, consultation and due regard for other states', and indeed mankind's, interests.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2009년도 한국우주과학회보 제18권2호
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• pp.26.2-26.2
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• 2009

The Solar and Space Weather Research Group (SOS) in Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) is constructing the Space Weather Prediction Center since 2007. As a part of the project, we are developing automatic real-time system of the global 3-D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation. The MHD simulation model of earth's magnetosphere is designed as modified leap-frog scheme by T. Ogino, and it was parallelized by using message passing interface (MPI). Our work focuses on the automatic processing about simulation of 3-D MHD model and visualization of the simulation results. We used PC cluster to compute, and virtual reality modeling language (VRML) file format to visualize the MHD simulation. The system can show the variation of earth's magnetosphere by the solar wind in quasi real time. For data assimilation we used four parameters from ACE data; density, pressure, velocity of solar wind, and z component of interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). In this paper, we performed some initial tests and made a animation. The automatic real-time system will be valuable tool to understand the configuration of the solar-terrestrial environment for space weather research.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2020

Properties of plasmas that constitute the plasma sheet in the near-Earth magnetotail vary according to the solar wind conditions and location in the tail. In this case study, we present multi-spacecraft observations by Cluster that show a transition of plasma sheet from cold, dense to hot, tenuous state. The transition was associated with the passage of a spatial boundary that separates the plasma sheet into two regions with cold, dense and hot, tenuous plasmas. Ion phase space distributions show that the cold, dense ions have a Kappa distribution while the hot, tenuous ions have a Maxwellian distribution, implying that they have different origins or are produced by different thermalization processes. The transition boundary separated the plasma sheet in the dawn-dusk direction, and slowly moved toward the dawn flank. The hot, tenuous plasmas filled the central region while the cold, dense plasmas filled the outer region. The hot, tenuous plasmas were moving toward the Earth, pushing the cold, dense plasmas toward the flank. Different types of dynamical processes can be generated in each region, which can affect the development of geomagnetic activities.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.482-484
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• 2003

GLI on boarded ADEOS-II satellite allows us to observe vegetation status in the two different resolutions simultaneously, because of thirty 1km resolution channels and six 250m resolution channels. There are four GLI land higher level products from these channels ; those are PGCP (Precise Geometric Correction Parameter), L2A_LC (TOA reflectance), ACLC (atmospheric corrected reflectance), and VGI (NDVI and EVI). This paper shows ADEOS-II GLI land data processing, and some of the latest results.

• 천문학회보
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.40.4-40.4
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• 2019

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are regarded as one of the most powerful sources of space weather disturbances observed near the Earth orbit (1 AU). In this study, we aim at investigating the relation between these disturbances and the physical properties of an ICME. Toward this end, we used an spheromak-type ICME and performed a series of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with different sets of ICME parameters. The ICME is injected into the background solar wind generated from near-Sun data and interplanetary scintillation (IPS) data via an MHD-IPS tomography method. We will compare simulation results to in situ observations near the Earth and discuss how the physical properties of an ICME affect the space weather disturbances at 1 AU.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.179-191
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• 2023

To study the influences of tunneling on the earth pressure and ground settlement when the tunnel passes through the adjacent underground retaining structure, 30 two-dimensional model tests were carried out taking into account the ratios of tunnel excavation depth (H) to lateral width (w), excavation width (B), and excavation distance using a custom-made test device and an analogical soil. Tunnel crossing adjacent existing retaining structure (TCE) and tunnel crossing adjacent newly-built retaining structure (TCN) were simulated and the earth pressure variations and ground settlement distribution during excavation were analyzed. For TCE condition, the earth pressure increments, maximum ground settlement and the curvature of the ground settlement curve are negatively related to H/B, but positively related to H/s and H/w. For TCN condition, most trends are consistent with TCE except that the earth pressure increments and the curvature of ground settlement curve are negatively related to H/w. The maximum ground settlement is larger than that observed in tunnel crossing the existing underground structure. This study provides an assessment basis for the design and construction under confined space conditions.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.165-173
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• 2021

Apophis is a near-Earth object with a diameter of approximately 340 m, which will come closer to the Earth than a geostationary orbit in 2029, offering a unique opportunity for characterizing the object during the upcoming encounter. Therefore, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute has a plan to propose a space mission to explore the Apophis asteroid using scientific instruments such as a laser altimeter. In this study, we evaluate the performance metrics of a laser altimeter using a pseudorandom noise modulation technique for the Apophis mission, in terms of detection probability and ranging accuracy. The closed-form expression of detection probability is provided using the cross correlation between the received pulse trains and pseudo-random binary sequence. And the new ranging accuracy model using Gaussian error propagation is also derived by considering the sampling rate. The operation range is significantly limited by thermal noise rather than background noise, owing to not only the low power laser but also the avalanche photodiode in the analog mode operation. However, it is demonstrated from the numerical simulation that the laser altimeter can achieve the ranging performance required for a proximity operation mode, which employs commercially available components onboard CubeSat-scale satellites for optical communications.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.153-194
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• 2009

우주활동의 증가와 더불어 이는 지구상의 인류와 환경에 대한 지속적인 위협요인이 되고 있으며 그중에서도 우주활동과 관련된 환경문제로서 가장 심각한 것으로 파악되고 있는 것이 우주폐기물의 문제이다. 이는 다른 우주 물체에 대해서도 커다란 위협이 될 뿐 아니라 지구의 대기권으로 재진입하여 인간이 통제(control)할 수 없는 상태에서 지구상에 낙하될 때에 인간의 생명과 재산상에 커다란 위험을 초래하게 된다. 현재 우주활동과정에서의 우주공간이나 지구를 포함한 천체에 대한 환경보호와 그 대처를 위한 제도적 장치는 아직 미흡하며 이를 위한 우주국제법적 해결이 모색되고 있고 부분적으로는 우주환경오염을 방지하고자 하는 규정이 일부 조약에 도입되기도 하였다. UN COPUOS를 중심으로 우주조약이나 책임협약 및 달 협정뿐만 아니라 등록협약의 관련조항에서도 가능한 위험을 최소화하기 위한 규정을 두고 있음은 주지의 사실이다. 그밖에도 부분적 핵실험 금지조약이나 핵무기비확산 조약 그리고 환경변화기술의 군사적 사용금지협약 등을 통해서도 우주나 지구자연의 평화적인 이용에 대한 장애요인을 제거하기 위한 직,간접적인 법적 장치가 마련되어 있는 것으로 평가된다. 특히 별도의 법체계를 정립하는 것이 필요하다는 문제와 관련하여 ILA는 일찍이 1986년 세계국제법협회 (ILA) 서울 총회에서 의제로 제안된 이래로 8년여에 걸쳐 여러 차례 각국에서의 회기를 거쳐 이 문제에 대한 지속적인 논의를 해왔던 바, 그 결과 동 협회는 1994년 Buenos Aires 회의에서 최종 초안인 "우주 폐기물에 기인되는 손해로부터 우주 내지 자구환경을 보호하기 위한 국제문서초안"을 작성하여 COPUOS에 제출한 바 있다. 향후 이것은 COPUOS가 의제로 채택하여 기술분과나 법률분과소위원회에서 논의를 할 때 기초적인 검토 자료로서 중요한 역할을 할 것으로 사료되며 동위원회에서 이를 충분히 심의한 후 사안의 심각성에 비추어 조속한 결실을 맺게 되도록 노력해야 할 것이다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.45-45
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• 2001