Scientific
Conference Actual problems of Russia Astronautics XXXII Academic Conference on
Astronautics ( A.K.Medvedeva Institute
for history of natural sciences and technology of RAS From
January 29 through The conference was inaugurated by a
plenary session in the Big Hall of the Training and Laboratory Building of N.E.
Bauman's Moscow State Technical University (MSTU) where, by tradition, the
audience was addressed by the chairman of the Organizing Committee Academician B.E.Chertok. The first plenary session was devoted
to centenaries of three remarkable persons - they are pioneers of exploration
of outer space - Academicians V.P.Glushko, A.N.Pilyugin
and A.M.Isaev. The following speakers presented the
papers: N.A.Pirogov, the General Director of Academician
V.P.Glushko's NPO Energomash, the General Designer B.I.Katorgin - "Academician
V.P.Glushko. At the 100 Year Anniversary of Birth"; E.L.Mezhiritsky,
the General Director of Academician N.A.Pilyugin's NPTs AP, the First Assistant General Designer V.A.Nemkevich, a department chief G.M.Priss
- "A founder of domestic systems of autonomous
control of rocket and space-rocket complexes -Academician N.A.Pilyugin";
V.A.Petrik, the General Director of A.M.Isaev's KB Khimmash (Isayev Design Bureau for Chemical Engineering), the First
Assistant of General Director - Chief
Designer I.A.Smirnov - "Chief Designer A.M.Isaev - an outstanding
creator of Liquid Rocket Engines and Liquid Rocket Propulsion Systems". The second plenary session was
devoted to problems of study and exploration of distant space. Speeches were
made by: V.G.Kurt, the Deputy Director of Astro-Space Center of FIAN (Lebedev
Physical Institute, Moscow) of the Russian Academy of Sciences - "Modern achievements of extra-atmospheric
astronomy"; G.M.Polishchuk, the Chief Designer
and General Director of S.A.Lavochkin's NPO, V.V.Efanov, the Assistant of Chief Designer of the design
bureau - "The modern and perspective
space complexes of S.A.Lavochkin's NPO for innovative
social and economic development of Russia". The section sessions at the XXXII
academic conference on astronautics were held in 20 sections. A group of sections: the 2nd - The airspace vehicles. Design and
construction, the 12th - The ground
infrastructure facilities of rocket complexes, the 18th - Automatic space vehicles for planetary and
astrophysical studies. Design, construction, testing and calculation
considered the problems of applied researches in the field of creation of new
types of space-rocket systems and their ground maintenance. The speeches were
presented by leading organizations of space-rocket industry from various large
research-and-production centers of the Russian Federation: RKK Energiya (S.P.Korolev Rocket and
Space Corporation Energia) (Korolev,
Moscow Region), TsNIIMASH (Korolev,
Moscow Region), the Khrunichev GKNPTs
(Khrunichev State Research and Production Space
Center) (Moscow), the Keldysh Center (Moscow), the
Russian Federal Nuclear Center - VNII for Experimental physics (All-Russian
Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics) (Sarov),
M.M.Gromov Flight Research Institute (Zhukovskiy, Moscow Region), the Design Bureau "Salut" (Moscow), the Scientific Research Institute for
Applied Mechanics and Electrodynamics (Moscow), the Arsenal Design Bureau ( St.
Petersburg), The most significant scientific
directions of researches in the field of ground complexes and starting
equipment of space-rocket systems, presented in the speeches, were: the
development and application of automated, resource-saving, and information
technologies in the construction of starting equipment; the research of
characteristics of gas-dynamic, acoustic, dynamic and thermal processes in the
starting equipment during preparation and start of space-rocket systems; the
development of modeling methods and the optimum control of starting equipment
operation. The results of fundamental studies
and developments of the domestic space-rocket science and technology in the
field of gas dynamics, plasma dynamics and its applications for the provision
of propulsion of carrier rockets and space vehicles were considered at sessions
of following sections: the 7th - Development
of astronautics and fundamental problems of gas-dynamic, burning and heat
exchange, the 3rd - The founders of
space propulsion engineering and the problems of theory and design of airborne
vehicles engines, the 4th - Space
power engineering and space electro-rocket propulsion systems - current
problems of creation and ensuring of quality; high technologies, the 15th -
Combined power systems for hypersonic
and aerospace airborne vehicles. It was pointed out, in particular, that
the creation of the liquid rocket engine RD-180, exceptionally important for
domestic rocket technology, and its successful introduction in the
international space-rocket market owes to active scientific and technological,
marketing and foreign trade activities of NPO Energomash
with an essential support of the state. There were reported results of current
researches of physical and chemical processes in streams containing
fine-dispersed dust particles. New results were presented on the research of a
model of clusters formation, nucleation speeds and phase transitions for
concrete substances. These questions are being discussed in connection with the
arrangement of effective utilization of energy carriers and the environmental
safety at various operating modes of airspace vehicles engines. In this
direction's materials discussed there is reflected a characteristic tendency
for the integration of efforts and results of fundamental and applied studies
aimed at the solution of problems of gas dynamics, burning and heat exchange
that are related to the operation and improvement of already created and newly
developed space vehicles, and also aimed at the strengthening of communication,
on this basis, between design organizations, academic and educational
institutes. From the newest studies on the problems of creation of combined
power systems with the use of jet propulsion engines it is evident that they
may become the most probable type of a power system of perspective hypersonic
vehicles. Moreover, from the papers presented and the reviews of foreign
studies it is apparent that the prospects of creation of new
types of engines for aviation and space-rocket systems - the Pulse Detonation
Engines (PDE) - becomes quite real. Problems in the field of applied
studies of space navigation and control of motion were considered at sessions
of following sections: the 5th - Applied
celestial mechanics and control of motion", the 13th - Space navigation and robotic", the 17th - Control systems of space vehicles and complexes. The most
significant of these became papers on solar sail, micro satellites and
interplanetary missions. Also were discussed questions of assuring flights, in
particular when planning for programs of operation of the International Space
Station from various control centers; the analysis of the selection of
design-ballistic schemes of interplanetary flights, in particular in case of
manned expedition to Mars. The course of many papers presented was the
development and improvement of instrumentation, systems and their element base
for use in the navigating equipment. At sessions there were considered the
principles of construction, the methods of calculation and designing of
automatic and automated control systems of various objects of space-rocket
systems, and also the long-term directions of development and creation of
intellectual control systems of such objects. Important place was given to
papers on the problems of information processing in control systems and
increasing its functioning accuracy, and also to the use of modern technologies
of calculation, designing, the issues of modeling and ground testing of these
systems. The applied studies providing for the
application of high technologies in the arrangement of production,
manufacturing and operation of space-rocket systems were a point of discussion
at sessions of sections 11 - Science
intensive technologies in space-rocket technology and 19 - Manufacture of installations of space-rocket
technology. The first group of reports was
devoted to the solution of basic actual problems of creation and operation of
space-rocket systems: the reliability and the environmental safety of operation
of space-rocket systems used for research of near and far outer space in the
interests of national economy and the development of terrestrial civilization
as a whole. A comprehensive IT provision of enterprises of space industry, the
creation of corporate territorially distributed information-telecommunication
systems of enterprise management, introduction into daily routine of
interactive electronic technical controls and other elements of
CALS-technologies (Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support), providing
information support of products of space-rocket technology at all stages of the
life cycle, the re-structuring of business processes, the creation of Computer
Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) for the purpose of closer and fuller integration
of the Russian space industry in the international economic community. The
introduction of high tech resource and energy saving environmentally safe
technologies into the production process of developing of space systems,
ensuring entry of Russia into the world market of high technologies. The second group of reports reflects
the achievements, features and problems of modern science intensive
technologies applied in the manufacturing of rocket-space systems. In
particular, great attention was given to problems of manufacturing of units out
of composite materials, parts of ceramics. The perspective technological
methods have been represented by reports on hydro jet and magnetic pulse
technologies of processing, and also on the researches within the limits of
traditional machining. A considerable portion of reports was devoted to
problems of procurement production, for example bending, forming, cutting, hole punching. In reports there were pronounced innovations
in methods of applying of functional coatings, improvement of reading
reliability of onboard telemetric systems of rockets. Some reports were devoted
to designing automation of technological processes. A ponder able share of
reports was traditionally devoted to problems of assembly and control of
large-sized, low rigidity elements. Another set of problems at the XXXII
academic conference on astronautics has been represented by fundamental and
applied researches in the following scientific directions: economics of space
activity, astronautics and the steady evolution of society, the aerospace
education and the problems of youth, aerospace biology and medicine,
astronautics and culture, on which respective section were working. In the papers and announcements on
the economics of space activity the following practical and scientific problems
were considered: the development of a strategy for re-structuring of the
industry and separate enterprises and organizations, the questions of creation
and development of a system of marketing of space industry, the problem of
formation and development of the global space market, the study of economic
aspects of development and realization of space projects of various levels, the
commercial aspects of creating space systems of double purpose, the prospect of
development of the Russian market for space services and its separate components.
Along with the traditional issues representing essential interest from the
point of view of economic-social aspects of functioning of the space-rocket
branch, in the work of the section found a reflection the problems having
arisen just recently: an assessment of economic safety of investment projects
of space activity as a criterion of efficiency of the project,
economic-mathematical modeling of space activity, a change in the system of
professional training for space industry. The scientific and technical, social
and economic and organizational-methodical problems were discussed within
scientific direction "Astronautics and the steady development of society".
Resolving of the last would promote enhancement and promotion of new directions
of development of the technology in the industry, the formation of aerospace
legislation, increasing of efficiency of international cooperation, social and
economic development of the country. In the set of problems of aerospace
education and problems of youth the questions were considered associated with
the continuous, integrated target training of specialists for the space-rocket
complex. Participants of section sessions also discussed current issues related
to the preparation of professional elite for space-rocket industry. On scientific directions of space
biology and medicine the main attention in the papers presented was given to
medical and biological provision of flights of man in outer space. The results
presented in the papers, in their majority, are a result of longstanding
fundamental studies onboard an orbiting complex "MIR" and onboard the Russian
segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The issues of history of space-rocket
technology are closely related to modern astronautics as they are an objective
source of describing and analyzing of the role of events and accomplishments of
the past of domestic astronautics for its development. One of directions of the conference
was oriented towards consideration of the results of studies of the scientific
creative work of pioneers of space exploration, represented by a corresponding
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