{"title":"Effect of atmosphere model on suborbital launch vehicle trajectory analysis for a hypothetical launch from Turkey","authors":"I. Yaman, B. Seçkin","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966927","url":null,"abstract":"There are several reference and standard atmosphere models which are claimed to be valid and accurate for different regions all over the world. Launchers, during their atmospheric flight, exposed to aerodynamic drag forces. Magnitude of these forces and trajectories of the launchers directly depend on the atmospheric conditions. It is a must to model the atmosphere accurately before the trajectory analysis in order to determine the trajectory of the vehicle precisely. Since there are no detailed atmospheric studies related to Turkey, which include atmospheric properties at high altitudes above 30 km, it is required to investigate the effect of regional and seasonal changes on a possible trajectory of launch from territory of Turkey. In this study, effect of different atmospheric conditions on the altitude and range of a vehicle is investigated. Study was performed using the real atmospheric values obtained from sounding balloon measurements and different models for higher altitudes that are not covered by the measurements. Two different locations are inspected regarding the change in atmospheric properties and one of these locations is more deeply investigated to clarify the effect of seasonal changes on a hypothetical launch of a suborbital launch vehicle. Main variable for the investigation is the atmospheric temperature over the investigated region at a certain time of year with respect to elevation.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129711859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finite element modelling and analysis of simple lap joints","authors":"Ilker Uysal, Murat Suer, I. Ozkol","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966925","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, in order to investigate simple lap joint's behavior, finite element models (FEM) were examined by using the simple plate-fastener system. The essence of this paper is to explore the simplest way of the finite element modeling of the simple lap joint. For that reason, various finite element models are created and analyzed with MSC. Nastran-Patran package software. Results are compared with previous studies [1]. Although, using 3-dimentional elements in FEM modeling result in more accurate output, it is not in the scope of this study, because of 3-dimentional modeling is complicated and takes much more time [2]. In the developed models plates are represented by shell elements, while the fastener nut is modeled by using rigid elements and three different type fastener shanks are modeled by rigid, beam and cbush elements [3].","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128807364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of aerospace simulation: From immersive Virtual Reality to serious games","authors":"R. Stone, P. Panfilov, V. E. Shukshunov","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966921","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we provide a retrospective overview of the evolution of simulation hardware and software technologies, beginning from the early days of the NASA VIEW Virtual Reality system, the European Space Agency's first steps in exploring the capabilities and limitations of immersive technologies for visualization and training, and developments underpinning the delivery of the first interactive 3D model of the Roscosmos Virtual Mir Space Station. Today's best practice, latest developments and future concepts of human-in-the-loop (HITL) simulation for the aerospace industry will be presented. The paper discusses additional findings relating to the exploitation and testing of a range of recent VR and serious games applications of relevance to aerospace research, development, education and training in the UK and Russia and seeks to define those issues demanding urgent consideration.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128619394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A low cost alternative for satellites- tethered ultra-high altitude balloons","authors":"K. Izet-Unsalan, D. Unsalan","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966806","url":null,"abstract":"Geostationary and geosynchronous satellites have a wide area of application in present day technology. The main drawback for the wider usage of such satellites is their high cost of launching into their orbit. As alternatives to conventional rocket launching, launching by high muzzle speed guns or by electric railguns have been proposed. However, it is hereby advocated that aerostats, stratospheric or mesospheric balloons tethered to a fixed point on the earth can also be used to fulfil the same tasks within a limited area of coverage. However, it is possible to widen the area of coverage by using a constellation of such balloons, presumably at a fraction of the cost of satellite launching. Presently, aerostats at about a few kilometers height are being used for a number of purposes, including border monitoring. The idea of tethered balloons reaching the lower parts of the stratosphere has been studied in 1960's for atmospheric research and successful results from prototype balloons have been obtained. The main problem related to high altitude aerostats has been found that extreme drifting loads are being induced by high altitude winds during the ascent (launching) and descent (recovery) phases. In the light of development of new high performance materials, as well as the development of superpressure balloons, it is now proposed to re-consider the same concept as a platform for high altitude devices used for communications, media broadcasting, environmental monitoring via optical or SAR imagery, monitoring for border security and illegal trafficking. Also, the possibility of two stage launching, ie, launching an aerostat from a high altitude airship shall be addressed. It is considered that the most convenient altitude for such aerostats is the stratopause region, with pressures at the order of 1 hPa pressure or 48 000–50 000 meters above the sea level.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"35 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129423663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Teodor-Viorel Chelaru, Mingireanu Florin, E. Vasile, Neagu Ion
{"title":"Scalability and dynamic stability of hybrid rocket engines","authors":"Teodor-Viorel Chelaru, Mingireanu Florin, E. Vasile, Neagu Ion","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966936","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is divided in two parts. The purpose of the first part is to tackle the problem of geometrical scalability of hybrid rocket engines while the second part of the paper the stability of hybrid rocket motor is investigated using Liapunov theory. Stability coefficients obtained are dependent on burning parameters while the stability and command matrixes are identified. Thus in the first part of this paper, authors present a method to tackle the issue of scalability in hybrid rocket engines. Experimental results on various hybrid rocket engines will be presented and compared with theoretical results obtained through an original internal combustion model. We derive the influence of hybrid rocket engine scale while keeping the same oxidizer and fuel and geometric similarity. The paper presents thoroughly the input data of the model, which allows reproducing easily the results obtained. The conclusions highlight the results obtained in chapter dedicated to analyze the results.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123637389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Skies, future and curricula: Content of Astronomy and Space Sciences material in pre-University level courses Karachi","authors":"Ingila Rahim, M. Ansari, M. A. K. Yousuf Zai","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966913","url":null,"abstract":"In all the eras of known human civilization, the role of Astronomy and Space Science has been dominant. The fate of human beings was so much associated with the blessings of the skies that such topics became essential part of myth, legend, religion, philosophy, poetry and science in all the ages. Divine on one hand and most earthly on the other, these topics acclaimed paramount at all theological, philosophical, scientific and academic forums. Most of the modern developments are indebted in one or the other way to the developments in these areas. Irrespective of the importance of Astronomy and Space Science as individual subjects, their role in the development of intellect and academic enhancement cannot be ignored. Because of this, in developed countries it is managed to make these subjects part of the curricula as independent subjects. Otherwise, selected topics from these areas are included in the curricula of other related subjects. As is the case with most of the underdeveloped countries of the world, curricula in Pakistan too are deficient in this regard. This is most true in particular, at the school and college levels.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121660454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emre Yavuzoğlu, E. Topal, A. Kutlu, Halime Urek, M. E. Gulluoglu, O. Tarakcioglu, Emre Yurtoglu, Değer Akin, K. Çelik, C. Ozyurt, K. Aydin, K. Yilmaz
{"title":"Verification of control moment gyroscopes based attitude control systems for agile satellite missions","authors":"Emre Yavuzoğlu, E. Topal, A. Kutlu, Halime Urek, M. E. Gulluoglu, O. Tarakcioglu, Emre Yurtoglu, Değer Akin, K. Çelik, C. Ozyurt, K. Aydin, K. Yilmaz","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966897","url":null,"abstract":"Large torque amplification and momentum storage capacity are the two basic properties that make control moment gyroscopes (CMGs) superior when compared to the reaction and momentum wheels commonly used in spacecraft attitude control. Software and Hardware in the Loop (HIL) tests are carried out for the verification of the requirements of CMG based attitude control systems (ACS). In order to have even a more realistic results, CMG based ACS HIL tests are performed on three axis air bearing test bed by taking into account the restrictions of the air bearing table used. The results of these simulations and tests are presented.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132044700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Akbulut, Cihangir Parmaksizoglu, A. Zaim, G. Yilmaz
{"title":"Energy and distance factor based routing protocol for wireless sensor networks using mobile agents","authors":"A. Akbulut, Cihangir Parmaksizoglu, A. Zaim, G. Yilmaz","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966865","url":null,"abstract":"The wireless sensor networks are networks of compact micro-sensors for data acquisition or monitoring some environment characteristics, such as temperature, sound, vibration, pressure and motion. These sensors are embedded devices capable of data communication. In many applications, sensor nodes are distributed or deployed over a geo-graphically large area. Due to their structure, data of measured values must be transferred among stations through these sensor nodes. For this reason a successful, energy efficient, fault tolerant routing protocol should be implemented to pre-vent data loss and other challenges within limited energy levels. This paper presents an agent based routing algorithm for wireless sensor networks, based on the selection of the idea of active nodes. Our proposed routing algorithm is related with energy and distance factors of each nodes. The main objective is to increase the lifetime of a sensor network while not compromising data delivery. Critical tasks such as measuring, analyzing and monitoring of energy levels of nodes are handled by these autonomous mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130098942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REKF and RUKF development for pico satellite attitude estimation in the presence of measurement faults","authors":"H. Soken, C. Hajiyev","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966972","url":null,"abstract":"When a pico satellite is under normal operational conditions, whether it is Extended or Unscented, a conventional Kalman Filter gives sufficiently good estimation results. However, if the measurements are not reliable because of any kind of malfunction in the estimation system, Kalman filter gives inaccurate results and diverges by time. This study compares two different robust Kalman filtering algorithms; Robust Extended Kalman Filter (REKF) and Robust Unscented Kalman Filter (REKF) for the case of measurement malfunctions. In both filters by the use of defined variables named as measurement noise scale factor, the faulty measurements are taken into the consideration with a small weight and the estimations are corrected without affecting the characteristic of the accurate ones. Proposed robust Kalman filters are applied for the attitude estimation process of a pico satellite and the results are compared.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131132480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Ismailoglu, B. Vargun, R. Sever, B. Okcan, K. Karakus, K. Kapucu, R. Oktem
{"title":"GEZGİN-2: Image processing subsystem of RASAT","authors":"N. Ismailoglu, B. Vargun, R. Sever, B. Okcan, K. Karakus, K. Kapucu, R. Oktem","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966981","url":null,"abstract":"GEZGİN-2 is the image processing subsystem of RASAT, an earth-observing small satellite which has been developed, built and qualified by TÜBİTAK-UZAY for a LEO mission. GEZGİN-2 is responsible for real-time compression of multi-spectral images acquired by the push-broom imagers of RASAT, before being transferred to the Solid State Data Recorders on-board the satellite. By applying compression to image data prior to recording, on-board storage space and downlink communication bandwidth of RASAT is more efficiently utilized. GEZGİN-2 realizes its image processing tasks through a fully integrated application specific digital architecture, delivering a processing rate of 55Mbps and consuming 6 Watts. As all subsystems of RASAT, GEZGİN-2 has been implemented with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components but qualified for its LEO mission through thermal vacuum cycling and vibrations tests compliant to ESA specifications. GEZGİN-2 has been successfully integrated on RASAT in year 2010 and is ready for launch.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127840707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}