For the vast majority of geostationary satellites currently in orbit, station keeping activities including orbit determination and maneuver planning and execution are ground-directed and dependent on the availability of ground-based satellite control personnel and facilities. However, a requirement linked to satellite autonomy and survivability in cases of interrupted ground support is often one of the stipulated provisions on the satellite platform design. It is especially important for a geostationary military-purposed satellite to remain within its designated orbital window, in order to provide reliable uninterrupted telecommunications services, in the absence of ground-based resources due to warfare or other disasters. In this paper we investigate factors affecting the robustness of a geostationary satellite’s orbit in terms of the maximum duration the satellite’s station keeping window can be maintained without ground intervention. By comparing simulations of orbit evolution, given different initial conditions and operations strategies, a variation of parameters study has been performed and we have analyzed which factors the duration is most sensitive to. This also provides valuable insights into which factors may be worth controlling by a military or civilian geostationary satellite operator. Our simulations show that the most beneficial factor for maximizing the time a satellite will remain in the station keeping window is the operational practice of pre-emptively loading East-West station keeping maneuvers for automatic execution on board the satellite should ground control capability be lost. The second most beneficial factor is using short station keeping maneuver cycle durations.

일반적인 도시 내배수시스템은 시설물과 운영방법으로 구분된다. 시설물은 관거, 수문, 배수펌프장 등으로 구성되며 운영방법은 펌프 및 수문운영으로 구성된다. 이러한 내배수시스템에서 유역의 유출 및 펌프 운영을 실시간으로 모의하고 배수효과를 고려할 수 있는 운영 모형은 펌프를 효과적으로 운영하기 위하여 필요하며, 이러한 실시간 운영 모형을 통하여 도시유역의 침수 위험을 감소시키기 위한 효율적인 펌프 운영 기법의 개발이 가능하다. 본 연구에서는 SWMM 5.0