{"title":"Design and development of a space suit mock-up for VR-based EVA research and simulation","authors":"Paolo Mangili, Vittorio Netti","doi":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.05.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsse.2024.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37283,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Space Safety Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141274125","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 Kriging-based method for the efficient computation of debris impact zones","authors":"Nicolas Praly , Vanessa Henriques , Maximilien Hochart , Massimiliano Costantini","doi":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To prevent or assess launch risk, evaluation of launchers impact zones is a key element. Several methods are currently used to predict impact zones at the French space agency (CNES), but the highest-fidelity method uses a series of computationally costly Monte Carlo simulations. This process can be very time consuming and the computation time can become prohibitive. A machine learning method called Kriging or Gaussian Process Regression is studied as a potential avenue to speed up the impact zones evaluation. This Kriging-based method, is tested in this paper in different flight phases and its potential for estimating debris impact zones is evaluated in terms of processing time, accuracy and genericity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37283,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Space Safety Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140282249","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":"Obituary for George William Samuel Abbey, Sr.","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.04.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.04.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37283,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Space Safety Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468896724000612/pdfft?md5=20d71023d5ee80cdafb4f3d6b2b5338d&pid=1-s2.0-S2468896724000612-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141133383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovative launch collision avoidance (LCOLA) tool prioritizing accuracy, launch access and efficiency","authors":"Daniel Oltrogge, Salvatore Alfano","doi":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.04.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.04.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A new Launch Collision Avoidance (LCOLA) analysis capability is presented. The method represents the combination of the patented algorithm developed by Analytical Graphics Inc. and implemented in its Launch Window Analysis (LWA) tool, together with a new LCOLA collision probability algorithm developed by COMSPOC Corporation to maximize launch window using responsive, comprehensive, and efficient LCOLA closure windows. The new tool works by assessing the underlying topography of the launch closure problem to identify and characterize all launch holds within the user-specified launch window rapidly and accurately without confining the launch operator to “top-of-the-minute” or other such constructs.</p><p>This new LCOLA capability avoids the pitfalls of the typical “digitized” or “snapshot” launch window screening approach, where launch objects are compared against the on-orbit catalogue at a small launch “T-zero” step size.</p><p>The new capability can detect launch closure holds based upon miss distance, collision probability or both. Prior to the probability calculation, each covariance is tested for positive definiteness and remediated if necessary. The tool's support for parallel processing, combined with its algorithmic efficiency, allow it to process all deployed objects. The tool aggregates all resulting launch holds into a concise report for the launch director and team.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37283,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Space Safety Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141056706","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 tale of three failure-oriented-accelerated-test (FOAT) types and their roles in assuring aerospace electronics-and-photonics reliability: Perspective","authors":"E. Suhir","doi":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.02.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.02.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Our “tale of three failure-oriented-accelerated-test (FOAT) types” includes (chronologically) 1) some product development tests (such as, e.g., shear-off or temperature cycling tests), 2) FOATs at the design stage (that should be applied, when a new technology, a new design or a new application of an existing aerospace electronic or a photonic product is considered, and suitable HALTs are not developed yet) and 3) Burn-in-tests (BITs). Their roles, significance and attributes are indicated and briefly discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37283,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Space Safety Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140271538","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":"The CDO: An innovative, flexible and modern Operations Control Centre for Europe's spaceport, French Guiana : Ground system architecture, resilience & operational excellence","authors":"Sandra Steere , Eric Julien , Frédéric Manon","doi":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.04.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsse.2024.04.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The CSG, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana was granted major financing from ESA and CNES at the ESA's Council Ministerial in 2019 in order to implement crucial largescale renovations and modernization of the launch base. With the arrival of ARIANE-6 & VEGA but also new launchers such as CALLISTO & SPACERIDER, the core launch range must be renewed to be capable of offering game-changing flexible and attractive services. The program is called the \"Core Launch Range Renewal\" (CLRR).</p><p>The CLRR has 6 components, including the new Launcher Tracking & Flight Safety Operations Control Centre (known as the CDO). The CDO will group all of the CNES operators involved in the ground operations, within a dedicated state of the art 3 story building, including 7 operations centres and two dedicated data centers. The ground segment system has been completely redesigned, allowing flexibility within operations, by introducing automation of configuration and validation operator tasks.</p><p>The CDO-BLA (ground software segment) aims to improve human factors aspects for the flight tracking operators at the European Spaceport. The CDO-BLA brings with it a state of the art ground system architecture and an innovative Simulator called STONES (Simulator Training Operational Numerical Environment System).</p><p>The ground system architecture of the CDO-BLA introduces technical solutions providing high-scale flexibility for campaign operations & intrinsic resilience of the ground segment. The simulator digitally emulates complex external equipment such as the launcher, radars & telemetry antennas, providing operators with a life-like launch environment. For each campaign, operators will be able to perform training but more importantly qualify the CDO configuration ready for a launch, carry out maintenance all of which in parallel to different operations, without having to connect to external interfaces. The aim is to be able to reconfigure le CDO, between 2 launches, within 2 working days whilst aiming for operational excellence!</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37283,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Space Safety Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141294432","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}
Antonio V.D. Merladet , Carlos H.N. Lahoz , Chiara Manfletti , Rodrigo M. Silveira , Diogo S. Castilho , Karen S. Andrade
{"title":"Safety analysis of evaluation and acceptance processes for space systems and operations based on system-theoretic approach","authors":"Antonio V.D. Merladet , Carlos H.N. Lahoz , Chiara Manfletti , Rodrigo M. Silveira , Diogo S. Castilho , Karen S. Andrade","doi":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The proposed analysis consists of identifying systemic aspects that can influence safety and mission fulfillment in the Evaluation and Acceptance Processes of Space Systems and Operations for Launch through the application of System-Theoretic Process Analysis, a technique capable of identifying potential hazardous design and operational flaws, including system design errors and unsafe interactions among multiple procedures and system components. This research identifies losses, hazards, system-level safety constraints, the control structure of the general system, unsafe control actions, loss scenarios that could occur and related causal factors, detecting improvement possibilities for future verifications, evaluations, approvals, and acceptances of space systems and launch operations. These findings can promote safety in space system designs and operations, supporting the activities conducted by launch vehicle and payload developers, certification authorities, and launch centers management, enabling means to proactively act in order to mitigate risks, avoiding unsafe actions and undesired system behaviors, or even to mitigating their consequences. The practical applications of this work can result in safety and mission fulfillment improvements for safety management systems, launch approval regulations and standards; launch operation procedures; space systems design; vehicle, payload, and ground support equipment productions; systems testing; and launch authorization processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37283,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Space Safety Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468896724000405/pdfft?md5=36efe936ca5b239c095528f7cc58520f&pid=1-s2.0-S2468896724000405-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140277051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ronglan Wang , Shuai Feng , Xiaohua Yang , Shuangxing Cui , Bingxian Luo
{"title":"Breakup analysis of Cosmos 1408 Satellite","authors":"Ronglan Wang , Shuai Feng , Xiaohua Yang , Shuangxing Cui , Bingxian Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.02.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>On November 15, 2021, Russian dead satellite Cosmos 1408 broke up, which attracted widespread attention from media and researchers both domestic and foreign. This paper analyzed this event. According to TLEs released by US Space Surveillance Network, the orbit change of the parent body was analyzed. By using the orbital elements of breakup debris, the information such as breakup time and intensity was preliminarily determined. Finally, two spacecraft on LEO were selected to carry out the collision risk assessment. The impact of Cosmos 1408 breakup debris (CBD) on the international space station (ISS), and the China space station (CSS) was analyzed. The results show that the impact risk of the CBD on the ISS and CSS could not be ignored.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37283,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Space Safety Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140464141","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}
Nikolay Osetskiy , Olga Manko , Vasily Rusanov , Anton Artamonov , Victor Tikhonenko , Eugeniy Ilyin , Oleg Orlov
{"title":"Functional status of the human cardiorespiratory system during a one-year expedition at Vostok station in central Antarctica as a model of a long-term lunar base","authors":"Nikolay Osetskiy , Olga Manko , Vasily Rusanov , Anton Artamonov , Victor Tikhonenko , Eugeniy Ilyin , Oleg Orlov","doi":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsse.2024.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Investigation of the cardiorespiratory system status in the conditions of yearlong wintering at Vostok station provided new data on the development of long-term adaptation of the human body under the influence of combined factors of the extreme environment of Central Antarctica, where this climatic zone was considered as a model of the extreme environment of the lunar base. During the 64th Russian Antarctic Expedition (2019), extended studies, including a dynamic assessment of the state of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems of polar expeditioners were carried out at Vostok station. New information was obtained regarding the peculiarities of the functioning of the cardiorespiratory system under the conditions of hypobaric hypoxia depending on age during the annual adaptation to the extreme climatic conditions of Central Antarctica.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37283,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Space Safety Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140274200","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":"Efforts in ensuring safety and transparency in space activities in the Asia-Pacific","authors":"Ikuko Kuriyama , Yumiko Tateshita , Koichi Kikuchi","doi":"10.1016/j.jsse.2023.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsse.2023.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper introduces the efforts to ensure the safety and transparency of space activities in the Asia-Pacific region, mainly based on the study results of the National Space Legislation Initiative (NSLI). NSLI is an initiative under the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) for exchanging information and enhancing the capacity of space policy<span><span> and law. NSLI's main activity is the joint study of national space legislation for the submission of a report to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). NSLI's study includes topics relating to safety and transparency in space activities, such as space debris </span>mitigation measures and registration of space objects. This paper introduces the status of such efforts by nine NSLI countries, mainly based on the information in the first phase NSLI report submitted in 2021 and discusses the way forward.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":37283,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Space Safety Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139301657","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}