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Zheng Gong, Nicholas Barnett, Jangguen Lee, Hyunwoo Jin, Byunghyun Ryu, Taeyoung Ko, Joung Oh, Andrew Dempster and Serkan Saydam
Water resources are essential to human exploration in deep space or the establishment of long-term lunar habitation. Ice discovered on the Moon may be useful in future missions to the lunar surface, necessitating the consideration of in situ resource uti...
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Malwina Kolano, Marek Cala and Agnieszka Stopkowicz
The surface of Phobos is an intriguing subject of research for many scientists. This is associated, among other things, with the fact that it is perceived as a potential launch site for future human Mars exploration. Additionally, measurements conducted ...
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Leonard Vance, Agustin Espinoza, Jorge Martinez Dominguez, Salil Rabade, Gavin Liu and Jekan Thangavelautham
Sustainable space exploration will require using off-world resources for propellant generation. Using off-world-generated propellants significantly increases future missions? range and payload capacity. Near Earth Objects (NEOs) contain a range of availa...
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Deming Zhao, Zhisheng Cheng, Weiwei Zhang, Jinsheng Cui and He Wang
This paper presents a detailed thermal simulation analysis of the drilling process for icy soil in the lunar polar region. The aim is to investigate the temperature changes that occur in the debris removal area during the drilling process. We developed a...
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Mitra Khalilidermani and Dariusz Knez
In the past two decades, various space agencies have shown great enthusiasm for constructing habitable structures on lunar and Martian surfaces. Consequently, several extraterrestrial structures have been proposed by different researchers. Nevertheless, ...
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Xu Zhang, Guoqing Zhang, Mingzhong Gao, Yufeng Wen and Yaohui Wang
The Moon is the closest extraterrestrial celestial body to the Earth. Sampling and analysis of lunar regolith or rocks can pave the way for the development and utilization of lunar resources. The acquisition of lunar regolith samples with original strati...
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Zihao Yuan, Ruinan Mu, Haifeng Zhao and Ke Wang
In this work, a dynamic model is proposed to simulate the drilling and steering process of an autonomous burrowing mole to access scientific samples from the deep subsurface of the Moon. The locomotive module is idealized as a rigid rod. The characterist...
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Haiyan Zhang, Cunhui Li, Jilin You, Xiaoping Zhang, Yi Wang, Liping Chen, Qingfei Fu, Baogui Zhang and Yuming Wang
The plume-surface interaction that occurs as a result of a variable-thrust engine exhaust plume impinging on soil during landings is critical for future lunar mission design. Unique lunar environmental properties, such as low gravity, high vacuum, and th...
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Junyue Tang, Tian Yang, Xiren Chen, Zhiheng Zhang, Ye Tian, Weiwei Zhang and Shengyuan Jiang
The collection of lunar regolith with complete stratigraphic information is the key to analyzing the evolution and composition of the moon. To keep each sample?s stratification for further analysis, a sampling method called flexible-tube coring has been ...
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Ziwen Li, Xiangyuan Zeng, Tongge Wen and Yonglong Zhang
The discrete element method (DEM) is usually applied in analyzing the scientifical origin/evolution of the asteroids and the landing/sampling of the regolith. In order to manage the contact between the non-spherical granules, the Polygonal Contact Model ...
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