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Geostationary Satellite Station Keeping Robustness to Loss of Ground Control

  • Woo, Hyung Je;Buckwalter, Bjorn
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • 제38권1호
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    • pp.65-82
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    • 2021
  • For the vast majority of geostationary satellites currently in orbit, station keeping activities including orbit determination and maneuver planning and execution are ground-directed and dependent on the availability of ground-based satellite control personnel and facilities. However, a requirement linked to satellite autonomy and survivability in cases of interrupted ground support is often one of the stipulated provisions on the satellite platform design. It is especially important for a geostationary military-purposed satellite to remain within its designated orbital window, in order to provide reliable uninterrupted telecommunications services, in the absence of ground-based resources due to warfare or other disasters. In this paper we investigate factors affecting the robustness of a geostationary satellite's orbit in terms of the maximum duration the satellite's station keeping window can be maintained without ground intervention. By comparing simulations of orbit evolution, given different initial conditions and operations strategies, a variation of parameters study has been performed and we have analyzed which factors the duration is most sensitive to. This also provides valuable insights into which factors may be worth controlling by a military or civilian geostationary satellite operator. Our simulations show that the most beneficial factor for maximizing the time a satellite will remain in the station keeping window is the operational practice of pre-emptively loading East-West station keeping maneuvers for automatic execution on board the satellite should ground control capability be lost. The second most beneficial factor is using short station keeping maneuver cycle durations.

Station Keeping Maneuver Planning Using COMS Flight Dynamic Software

  • 김해연;이병선;황유라;신동석;김재훈
    • 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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    • 제2권2호
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    • pp.16-21
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    • 2007
  • 태양과 달 그리고 지구의 비대칭 중력장에 의해 발생하는 다양한 섭동항은 정지궤도 위성의 위치를 지속적으로 변화시킨다. 따라서, 정지궤도 위성의 위치를 일정한 범위 내로 유지시키기 위해서는 궤도경사각과 승교점 적경을 조정하는 남북방향 위치유지와 이심률과 경도를 조정하는 동서방향 위치유지가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 통신해양기상위성 비행역학 소프트웨어를 이용하여 통신해양기상위성의 위치유지 시뮬레이션을 수행하고 그 결과를 분석하였다. 통신해양기상위성은 경도 $128.2^{\circ}E$ 에서 위성을 ${\pm}0.05^{\circ}$ 범위 내에 유지시키기 위해 일주일 주기로 동서/남북방향 위치유지를 수행하며, 위성의 남쪽 패널에만 부착된 태양 전지판으로 부터 발생하는 자세오차를 줄이기 위해 하루 두 번 휠 오프로딩을 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 휠오프로딩을 고려한 위치유지 시뮬레이션을 수행하였고, 그 결과 통신해양기상위성 비행역학 소프트웨어를 이용하여 통신해양기상위성을 ${\pm}0.05^{\circ}$ 범위 내에서 안정적으로 유지시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.

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