Investigation on Lunar Landing Candidate Sites for a Future Lunar Exploration Mission

China is conducting a lunar exploration mission named “Chang’e project”. The goal of the exploration mission is to obtain the drilling core without breaking the original geological information. Since the characteristics of drilling object in lunar exploration mission are different from the soil on the earth, efforts should be greatly made on special sampling methods, sampling drills and the appropriate sampling strategies. Herein, we proposed a novel drilling and coring method, in which a soft-bag is mounted in a rotary-percussive drill for lunar soil sampling. In the process of lunar soil drilling, the driving parameters of several moving units are strongly coupled. The moving units should work cooperatively in order to acquire high coring rate and low power consumption. The relationship between the coring quantity and the drilling parameters will be discussed through experiments. The research showed a clear correlation between rotary drilling torque, sample quantity and rev-feed ratio under specific lunar soil conditions.

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Proposition of Microrover System for Lunar Exploration

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics ◽

10.20965/jrm.2000.p0091 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 91-95

Author(s):

Yoji Kuroda ◽

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Yasuharu Kunii ◽

Takashi Kubota ◽

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Keyword(s):

Low Power ◽

Lunar Exploration ◽

Surface Exploration ◽

Scientific Significance ◽

Exploration Mission

We developed a lightweight, low-power microrover for surface exploration in space. Such a rover must travel safely over long distances and periods in unfamiliar terrain. We present an exploration mission, scientific significance, requirements, and technology of a rover, proposing mobility using 4 wheels and 1 supported wheel whose suspension is simple and light and as mobile as a 6-wheeled rover.

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Requirements Analysis of Propulsion Systems for Lunar-Exploration Mission

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets ◽

10.2514/1.a32349 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 50 (3) ◽

pp. 620-631 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Yongjun Moon ◽

Tae Seong Jang ◽

Chul Park ◽

Sejin Kwon

Keyword(s):

Requirements Analysis ◽

Lunar Exploration ◽

Propulsion Systems ◽

Exploration Mission

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Chandrayaan-2: India’s Second Lunar Exploration Mission

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology ◽

10.3844/jastsp.2019.221.236 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 221-236 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Santosh Kosambe

Keyword(s):

Lunar Exploration ◽

Exploration Mission

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Control Strategy of Lunar Lander-Relay Satellite Antenna Acquisition and Tracking for Chang’e-4 Lunar Exploration Mission

2020 15th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA) ◽

10.1109/iciea48937.2020.9248324 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yang ZHAO ◽

Ting ZHANG ◽

Xueying WU ◽

He ZHANG

Keyword(s):

Control Strategy ◽

Lunar Exploration ◽

Satellite Antenna ◽

Exploration Mission ◽

Lunar Lander

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Intelligent Lunar Landing Site Recommender

International Journal of Engineering and Management Research ◽

10.31033/ijemr.11.2.26 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 184-188

Author(s):

Anthony Thomas ◽

Digina Derose ◽

Sahaya Cyril ◽

Smita Dange

Keyword(s):

Space Exploration ◽

Landing Site ◽

Soft Landing ◽

The Core ◽

Lunar Landing ◽

Landing Sites ◽

Core Feature ◽

Celestial Bodies ◽

One Step ◽

Exploration Mission

Space exploration is brewing to be one of the most sought after fields in today’s world with each country pooling in resources and skilled minds to be one step ahead of the other. The core aspect of space exploration is exoplanet exploration, i.e., by sending unmanned rovers or manned spaceships to planets and celestial bodies within and beyond our solar system to determine habitable planets. Landscape inspection and traversal is the core feature of any planetary exploration mission. It is often a strenuous task to carry out a machine learning experiment on an extraterrestrial surface like the Moon. Consequent lunar explorations undertaken by various space agencies in the last four decades have helped to analyze the nature of the Lunar Terrain through satellite images. The motion of the rovers has traditionally been governed by the use of sensors that achieve obstacle avoidance. In this project we aim to detect craters on the lunar landscape which in turn will be used to determine soft landing sites on the lunar landscape for exploring the terrain, based on the classified lunar landscape images.

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