The Unha Launch Vehicle: Launch Report and Technological Summary of KMS-3-2 Launch

Kim Yongha
Project Management Headquarters Korean Committee of Space Technology

The East Asia Society for Space Technology Space Conference Beijing, China, March 28, 2013

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DPRK in Space : the 10th Country of Space Club

On Dec, 12,2012, DPRK successfully launch Unha-3(2nd Unit) and became the 10th country of Space Club Validated:
Ground control and support systems and launch infrastructure 1st stage performance and control Structural and GNC margins through lift-off, transonic, and Max-Q 1st stage / 2nd stage staging sequence 2nd stage performance and control Payload fairing separation 2nd stage / 3rd stage staging sequence Orient 3rd stage to ignition target angle 3rd stage dog-leg maneuver 3rd stage guidance and shutdown Payload separation 3rd stage CCAM
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The Mission: Unha-3-2 / KMS-3-2

Kwangmyngsng-3 Unit2 Mass of Payload :105kg Target Orbit : 500km500km 97.4deg SSO Partial Success (50%): Beacon emitting at least 10 cycles on orbit (with internal battery power) Minimum Success (100%): Telemetry data transmitting to ground and on-board system verification Full Success(200%): Solar panel deployment and 3-axis attitude control Extra Success(300%): Earth observation with onboard instruments Advanced Success(400%): Orbit adjustment with onboard cold gas propulsion

Onboard Sensors:
High Definition Camera (HDC) Wide Range Dual Spectral Camera (DSC) Earth and Sun sensor

Onboard Propulsion:
8 -1N GN2 thrusters for unloading 2 -10N GN2 thrusters for orbit adjustments

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The Mission: Vehicle Assembly

2nd stage mated to 1st stage 1st stage Installation on pad

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The Mission: andFrom Earth to Space

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The Mission: Flight Trajectory

Event Timeline:
69s : Max Q Altitude/Range :14km/5.5km Velocity:520m/s 119s :1st stage burnout 120s:1st stage separation Altitude/Range:55km/41km Velocity: 1890m/s 122s: 2nd stage ignition 125s: Interstage separation 155s: Payload Fairing Jettison Altitude/Range:100km/91km Velocity: 2000m/s 317s: 2nd stage burnout 319s: 2nd stage separation Altitude/Range:307km/485km Velocity: 4160m/s

327s: 3rd stage ignition 557s: 3rd stage burnout Altitude/Range:500km/1646km Velocity: 7619m/s 567s: KMS-3-2 separation
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The Mission: Flight Trajectory contd

Event Timeline:
69s : Max Q Altitude/Range :14km/5.5km Velocity:520m/s 119s :1st stage burnout 120s:1st stage separation Altitude/Range:55km/41km Velocity: 1890m/s 122s: 2nd stage ignition 125s: Interstage separation 155s: Payload Fairing Jettison Altitude/Range:100km/91km Velocity: 2000m/s 317s: 2nd stage burnout 319s: 2nd stage separation Altitude/Range:320km/514km Velocity: 4133m/s 327s: 3rd stage ignition 555s: 3rd stage burnout Altitude/Range:499km/1635km Velocity: 7620m/s 567s: KMS-3-2 separation
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The Mission: Dog-Leg Maneuver

Sohae Satellite Launch Ground has narrow usable azimuth to launch satellite about 90deg for sea-locked dropping zone. So we can launch satellite to 90deg inclination orbit without out-plane maneuver. (This method was known as Dog-leg maneuver or Yaw steering) KMS-3-2 mission need to launch satellite to 98.7deg inclination, so 3rd stage dog-leg maneuver was necessary

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Conclusion: 180% Mission Success! Result of Vehicle Launch Success Vehicle Accuracy Target Orbit : 500km500km 97.4deg SSO Inserted Orbit : 499.7km584.2km 97.4deg Shutdown status :
Guidance Command Shutdown, remaining 6% of propellants

Result of Satellite
Partial Success (50%): Beacon emitting at least 10 cycles on orbit (with internal battery power) Minimum Success (100%): Telemetry data transmitting to ground and on-board system verification Full Success(200%): Solar panel deployment and 3-axis attitude control Extra Success(300%): Earth observation with onboard instruments Advanced Success(400%): Orbit adjustment with onboard cold gas propulsion

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ThenWhats NEXT? Vehicle Performance Improvement

Current configuration of LVs (ULV2A) will use KMS-4 and KMS-5 In the next mission (KMS-4) , we tried to little improvement of vehicle as shown below
KMS-4 (150kg) and TDM-1 (30kg) dual manifest mission with new payload attach fitting Add K-POD cube sat deploying system with three 1U(K-cube1) cube sat. Add experimental hydrazine RCS thruster to 3rd stage aft bulkhead and testing orbit accuracy improvements.

Satellite technology Improvement

KMS-3-2 tells us that we need more challenge to space and basic researches of satellite technology to get valuable achievement in space Proposed KMS series has very challenging mission (remote sensing ,communication ,and moon exploration) so well simultaneously technology demonstration mission with KMS series The first mission is TDM-1 and Kcube1,2,3 with KMS-4 satellite

After KMS-6, new vehicle configuration (ULV-2B) debut

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Questions?

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