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Simulating Imaging of Large Scale Radio Arrays on the Lunar Surface
Published on: July 30, 2020
Korean lunar navigation constellation with stability-filtered optimisation
Seungsoo Yoo1, Gyu-In Jee1, Sun Yong Kim2
1Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, 05029, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
The international lunar navigation baseline-eight satellites in elliptical lunar frozen orbits (ELFOs) with [Formula: see text]-provides robust south-polar PNT coverage but leaves near-side mid-latitudes largely unserved. This gap directly affects the Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA) 2032 lander mission, whose candidate sites span latitudes [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text]. We propose the Korean Lunar Navigation System (KLNS): five augmentation satellites in [Formula: see text] ELFOs that concentrate dwell time over the northern hemisphere. A two-stage optimisation is employed. First, every candidate orbit in a 10,368-element search space is propagated for 720 hours under a perturbed model (lunar [Formula: see text] + Earth third-body) and screened against four stability criteria, removing 2864 (27.6%) dynamically infeasible candidates. Second, a greedy sequential algorithm with hard S-ROI protection selects five KLNS satellites that raise N40-70 PNT availability from 0.0 to 89.5%, far exceeding the 50% target, while preserving 99.7% south-polar coverage. The stability-filtered greedy solution outperforms a [Formula: see text] genetic-algorithm benchmark (85.6%), demonstrating that a well-designed pre-filter can obviate more expensive metaheuristics. Site-specific evaluation confirms 92.5-94.2% availability at all three northern KASA candidate landing sites under the augmented constellation.
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