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词条 X-ray pulsar-based navigation
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  1. Spacecraft navigation

     Studies  Experiments 

  2. Aircraft navigation

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}}X-ray pulsar-based navigation and timing (XNAV) or simply pulsar navigation is a navigation technique whereby the periodic X-ray signals emitted from pulsars are used to determine the location of a vehicle, such as a spacecraft in deep space. A vehicle using XNAV would compare received X-ray signals with a database of known pulsar frequencies and locations. Similar to GPS, this comparison would allow the vehicle to triangulate its position accurately (±5 km). The advantage of using X-ray signals over radio waves is that X-ray telescopes can be made smaller and lighter.[1][2][3]

Experimental demonstrations have been reported in 2018.[4]

Spacecraft navigation

Studies

The Advanced Concepts Team of ESA studied in 2003 the feasibility of x-ray pulsar navigation [5] in collaboration with the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain. After the study, the interest in the XNAV technology within the European Space Agency was consolidated leading, in 2012, to two different and more detailed studies performed by GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE (ES) and the National Physical Laboratory (UK).[6]

Experiments

XPNAV
On 9 November 2016 the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched an experimental pulsar navigation satellite called XPNAV 1.[7] XPNAV-1 has a mass of 240 kg, and is in a 493 km × 512 km, 97.41° orbit.[7] XPNAV-1 will characterize 26 nearby pulsars for their pulse frequency and intensity to create a navigation database that could be used by future operational missions. The satellite is expected to operate for five to ten years. XPNAV-1 is the first pulsar navigation mission launched into orbit.[8]
SEXTANT
SEXTANT (Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology) is a NASA-funded project developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center that is testing XNAV on-orbit on board the International Space Station in connection with the NICER project, launched on 3 June 2017 on the SpaceX CRS-11 ISS resupply mission.[9] If this is successful, XNAV may be used as secondary navigation technology for the planned Orion missions.[10] In January 2018, X-ray navigation feasibility was demonstrated using NICER/SEXTANT on ISS.[11] It reported a 7 km accuracy (in 2 days).[12]

Aircraft navigation

In 2014, a feasibility study was carried out by the National Aerospace Laboratory of Amsterdam, for use of pulsars in place of GPS in navigation. The advantage of pulsar navigation would be more available signals than from satnav constellations, being unjammable, with the broad range of frequencies available, and security of signal sources from destruction by antisatellite weapons.[13]

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/jun/04/pulsars-map-the-way-for-space-missions |title=Pulsars map the way for space missions|date=4 June 2014|first=Tushna |last=Commissariat |publisher=Physics World }}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.technologyreview.com/view/515321/an-interplanetary-gps-using-pulsar-signals |title=An Interplanetary GPS Using Pulsar Signals|date=23 May 2013 |publisher=MIT Technology Review}}
3. ^{{cite journal |last1=Becker |first1=Werner |last2=Bernhardt |first2=Mike G. |last3=Jessner |first3=Axel |arxiv=1305.4842 |title=Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation With Pulsars |class=astro-ph.HE |date=2013-05-21 |doi=10.2420/AF07.2013.11}}
4. ^[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00478-8?amp;utm_medium=email& NASA test proves pulsars can function as a celestial GPS]
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/doc/ARI/ARI%20Study%20Report/ACT-RPT-MAD-ARI-03-4202-Pulsar%20Navigation-UPC.pdf |title=Feasibility study for a spacecraft navigation system relying on pulsar timing information|series=Ariadna Final Report |publisher=Advanced Concepts Team}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=https://gsp.esa.int/documents/10192/43064675/C4000106174ExS.pdf/8a26a304-9d5f-447d-aa75-bc0c955a4b78|title=DEEP SPACE NAVIGATION WITH PULSARS|series=GSP Executive Summary |publisher=ESA, General Studies Programme}}
7. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/xpnav-1.htm |title=XPNAV 1 |work=Gunter's Space Page |first=Gunter |last=Krebs |access-date=2016-11-01}}
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://spaceflight101.com/long-march-11-launches-xpnav-1-satellite/|title=Chinese Long March 11 launches first Pulsar Navigation Satellite into Orbit| date=10 November 2016|publisher=Spaceflight101.com}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/nicer/news/nicer_whatsnew.html |title=NICER Manifested on SpaceX-11 ISS Resupply Flight |series=NICER News |publisher=NASA |date=December 1, 2015 |accessdate=June 14, 2017 |quote=Previously scheduled for a December 2016 launch on SpaceX-12, NICER will now fly to the International Space Station with two other payloads on SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)-11, in the Dragon vehicle's unpressurized Trunk.}}
10. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.nature.com/news/neutron-stars-set-to-open-their-heavy-hearts-1.22070 |title=Neutron stars set to open their heavy hearts |newspaper=Nature.com |date=31 May 2017}}
11. ^{{cite web |url=https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/content/-/article/iss-utilization-nicer-sexta-1 |title=ISS Utilization: NICER/SEXTANT }}
12. ^[https://www.livescience.com/62309-galactic-positioning-system-nasa.html NASA's Got a Plan for a 'Galactic Positioning System' to Save Astronauts Lost in Space]
13. ^{{cite web |url= https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/207624-pulsar-navigation-piloting-aircraft-with-the-aid-of-the-stars |title= Pulsar navigation: piloting aircraft with the aid of the stars |author= Bauke Stelma |date= 8 June 2015 |publisher= ExtremeTech }}

External links

  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4842v1.pdf Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation With Pulsars, W.Becker, M.G. Bernhardt & A.Jessner, in Acta Futura 2013]
  • Johns Hopkins APL to Develop Deep Space Navigation Network
  • US Government Contract Proposal for X-Ray Pulsar Based Navigation and Time Determination
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