A design scheme of lunar surface impact type penetrator using the soil structure penetrating principle is put forward to realize in-situ investigation of lunar regolith, stressing its operating principle and mechanism and carrying out multi set scheme design and analysis. The prototype system is developed and demonstrated to prove the possibility of penetrating the lunar regolith. Some suggestions are also put forward for future in-situ investigation of lunar regolith..
SHEN Yi, WANG Dong, JIANG Shengyuan, LIU Jie, ZHANG Weiwei, CHEN Huazhi, DENG Zongquan
. Research on Impact Type Penetrator for Lunar Regolith Exploration Project[J]. Journal of Deep Space Exploration, 2015
, 2(3)
: 213
-217
.
DOI: 10.15982/j.issn.2095-7777.2015.03.004
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