新一代载人月面着陆器发展趋势研究

月面着陆器是实现载人探月任务的重要组成部分,从任务规划和着陆器参数两个方面对早期美国阿波罗计划中的月面着陆器（ LM）、苏联N1-L3登月计划中的月面着陆器（ L3登月系统）以及最近美国星座计划中的月面着陆器（ Altair）的相关情况进行了分析,并从任务需求、月面环境和研究经费及基础设施方面对LM与Altair月面着陆器进行详细比较,通过比较分析总结出新一代载人月面着陆器将沿着提高乘员运送能力、扩大到达范围、延长航天员生活时间及功能模块化的方向发展,并提出研制新一代月面着陆器应着重解决着陆器推进、结构、着陆障碍检测及缓冲以及月尘防护等关键技术。     

嫦娥探测器分段渐倾转移机构设计

巡视探测器转移机构是在地外空间环境执行巡视探测器转移释放任务的空间机构。与美国、苏联转移任务不同,中国探月工程（CLEP）二期着陆器采用腿式着陆缓冲机构及巡视器顶部搭载方式,转移任务沿着陆器周向展开距离及巡视器释放高度增加,转移难度增大。在设计阶段,转移机构是否符合探测任务严苛的工程约束及设计指标;在执行阶段,转移机构能否在月面非确知环境下正常展开、转移过程是否稳定可靠,是嫦娥探测器顺利完成探测任务的关键。为保障月球后续任务及火星探测任务中转移机构的设计需要,根据巡视器转移系统特点,以探月二期工程中首次探索并成功自主设计定型的嫦娥分段渐倾转移机构为例,对巡视器转移系统的组成、任务需求及设计约束予以阐述,并结合参研人员经验,对机构研制方案的选取、关键环节设计、工程状态及任务验证情况进行说明,以为后续工作及相关工程提供参考。     

深空探测着陆器数字化设计及着陆性能影响因素

以对称分布四腿悬架式月球着陆器为研究对象,建立了着陆器软着陆过程六自由度动力学模型并改进了月壤摩擦系数模型;在以上动力学模型基础上,以月球着陆器为例编制了着陆器软着陆六自由度动力学分析程序,利用该程序分析了探测器全机月面软着陆性能,重点研究了动力学模型中的月面等效弹性系数、月面摩擦系数和月面倾斜角度等参数对探测器着陆性能的影响。研究表明上述影响因素对着陆器着陆缓冲性能影响显著,通过对以上参数的合理选择可以有效缓解月球探测器月面软着陆的着陆冲击过载。     

月球车释放对着陆器稳定性的影响

因基于摇臂式月球车释放机构在月球车释放时对着陆器的倾翻力矩较大,易使着陆器倾翻而导致整个探测任务失败,所以对月球车着陆释放时着陆器稳定性的研究尤为重要.将着陆器腿不等量压缩、月面坡度、低重力环境、释放加速度等因素进行参数化处理;应用D-H坐标法得到基于各参量的支撑多边形坐标以及着陆器和月球车的位姿方程,进而建立了月球车...     

月球着陆器软着陆状态跳跃半主动控制

 将磁流变阻尼器应用到月球着陆器着陆机构中,进行减震与缓冲。考虑到着陆初始姿态角的不定和月面斜角的未知,建立起着陆器软着陆动力学模型。基于磁流变液在高速流与长冲程时的阻尼特性,分析了磁流变阻尼器的力学特性。应用安全角面的概念定义安全着陆所要求的着陆初始姿态角与月面斜角之间的关系,建立状态跳跃控制策略,实现软着陆半主动控制。通过与某型被动控制的着陆器进行对比分析,研究了半主动控制。研究结果表明：当允许的最大加速度响应不超过8g时,磁流变半主动状态跳跃控制的安全角面为理想安全角面的0.977 4,是被动控制安全角面的4.2倍,最大加速度变化的相对标准差为被动控制的0.59;而且当着陆初始姿态角以及月面斜角很大时,月球着陆器姿态角变化少,保证月球着陆器平稳着陆。     

Lunar photography: Techniques and results

Conclusion The lunar photography missions have included flyby, impacter, lander, and orbiter spacecrafts. These missions have provided photographs of the far side of the moon and a ten-fold increase in frontside resolution plus higher resolution of selected frontside areas. The resolutions which have been achieved vary from 1 m for the Lunar Orbiter to 1/2 m for the impacting Ranger to millimeters for Luna-IX and the Surveyors. The return from these missions have resolved much of the mystery surrounding the moon.The prime objective of the U.S. photographic missions has been the support of the Apollo-manned lunar landing program. The Ranger program, the Surveyor program, and the Lunar Orbiter program provided a logical progression in the utilization of a developing space exploration technology. These programs have provided the required information and have confirmed that the Apollo landing vehicle design is compatible with the conditions to be experienced on selected areas of the lunar surface.The future manned landing missions can be expected to provide additional lunar photography. Since the astronauts can be more selective in their photography, even more outstanding and informative results should be achieved. The addition of movies and even live television coverage will permit earth-based man to share more directly in the manned exploration of the moon.The unmanned photographic exploration of the moon has provided much of the technology required for similar missions to the planets. The U.S. Mariner-IV was the first successful mission to obtain close-up photographs of the planet Mars. It can be expected that both the U.S.A. and Russia will try for further photographic successes in the exploration of our solar system.This paper presents the results of one phase of research carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under Contract No. NAS 7-100, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.     

欧美月球GNSS规划现状分析综述

月球是地球最重要的天然卫星,当前国际上正在迎来新一轮月球探索高潮,数十个机构和商业团队正在规划月球探索任务,并设想在未来实现航天员长期驻月,围绕月球的“太空竞赛”刚刚开始。月球GNSS（基于现有的地球GNSS以及新的环月卫星通信导航基础设施的月球卫星通信导航定位技术）是空间基准科研的基础,能够提供航天器着陆定位以及月面（及其覆盖空间）定位、导航与授时等服务,同时可以将月球作为试验场,将导航工具包扩展到更远的目的地（如火星）。对欧美近期发布的月球GNSS规划进行了整理归纳,其中包括美国月球GNSS接收机实验（LuGRE）计划和欧洲月光（MoonLight）计划,以及美国中远期月球通信中继和导航系统（LCRNS）计划,这些计划可以为我国开展月球GNSS规划提供参考。     

求解最优月球软着陆轨道的隐式打靶法

基于间接法思想推导出一种隐式打靶法对月球软着陆轨道优化问题进行了研究。建立月球软着陆轨道归一化系统模型,利用庞特亚金极大值原理将月球软着陆轨道优化问题转化为满足最优必要条件的两点边值问题（TPBVP）,采用一种新的时间变量使两点边值问题的终端时刻固定,同时将终端时刻看作状态变量并引入终端时刻的哈密尔顿函数值作为隐式终端条件,提出一种隐式打靶法对含有隐式终端条件的两点边值问题进行迭代求解,从而得出燃料消耗最优的月球软着陆轨道。仿真结果表明,与直接法和混合法相比,隐式打靶法优化精度高,收敛速度快,实现了月球软着陆过程燃料消耗最优。同时应用隐式打靶法求解不同发动机推力值的最优月球软着陆问题,得到燃料消耗最小的最优推重比,可为月面着陆器下降级发动机选型提供参考。     

含局部非线性的月球探测器软着陆动力学模型降阶分析

为准确预估探测器着陆冲击过程的动力学响应,采用非线性有限元方法建立了探测器软着陆动力学模型,能够较全面地反映出各种非线性因素。针对非线性有限元求解耗时长的弱点,考虑到探测器的局部非线性特性,利用广义动力缩聚（GDR）方法建立了月球探测器中心体的降阶模型。提出了一种基于脉冲响应函数的模态截断准则,在广义动力缩聚方法的基础上筛选少数几阶模态影响系数（MIC）较高的模态表征中心体的加速度响应,能够进一步降低模型的阶数。将降阶的中心体模型与含非线性的缓冲机构连接后进行的软着陆动力学分析能够准确而快速地预估探测器测点的加速度响应,与非降阶模型对比,计算时间缩短了75.5%,加速度响应的相对峰值误差控制在5%以内。数值仿真表明,广义动力缩聚方法能够有效地解决传统非线性有限元方法求解效率低的问题,本文所提模态截断准则的优点是适于求解模态密集问题并且与系统的输入输出无关。     

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO): Observations for Lunar Exploration and Science

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was implemented to facilitate scientific and engineering-driven mapping of the lunar surface at new spatial scales and with new remote sensing methods, identify safe landing sites, search for in situ resources, and measure the space radiation environment. After its successful launch on June 18, 2009, the LRO spacecraft and instruments were activated and calibrated in an eccentric polar lunar orbit until September 15, when LRO was moved to a circular polar orbit with a mean altitude of 50 km. LRO will operate for at least one year to support the goals of NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD), and for at least two years of extended operations for additional lunar science measurements supported by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). LRO carries six instruments with associated science and exploration investigations, and a telecommunications/radar technology demonstration. The LRO instruments are: Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER), Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE), Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP), Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND), Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA), and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC). The technology demonstration is a compact, dual-frequency, hybrid polarity synthetic aperture radar instrument (Mini-RF). LRO observations also support the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), the lunar impact mission that was co-manifested with LRO on the Atlas V (401) launch vehicle. This paper describes the LRO objectives and measurements that support exploration of the Moon and that address the science objectives outlined by the National Academy of Science’s report on the Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon (SCEM). We also describe data accessibility by the science and exploration community.     

Recent observations of the Moon by spacecraft

Lunar flyby, orbiting, and landing spacecraft in the last ten years have provided an excellent definition of the nature of the lunar surface, and important information about the lunar interior. Some of the major controversies concerning the Moon appear now to be resolved.This work was sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S.A. under contract NAS7-100.     

An Overview of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)

The Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), an accompanying payload to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission (Vondrak et al. 2010), was launched with LRO on 18 June 2009. The principle goal of the LCROSS mission was to shed light on the nature of the materials contained within permanently shadowed lunar craters. These Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) are of considerable interest due to the very low temperatures, <120?K, found within the shadowed regions (Paige et al. 2010a, 2010b) and the possibility of accumulated, cold-trapped volatiles contained therein. Two previous lunar missions, Clementine and Lunar Prospector, have made measurements that indicate the possibility of water ice associated with these PSRs. LCROSS used the spent LRO Earth-lunar transfer rocket stage, an Atlas V Centaur upper stage, as a kinetic impactor, impacting a PSR on 9 October 2009 and throwing ejecta up into sunlight where it was observed. This impactor was guided to its target by a Shepherding Spacecraft (SSC) which also contained a number of instruments that observed the lunar impact. A?campaign of terrestrial ground, Earth orbital and lunar orbital assets were also coordinated to observe the impact and subsequent crater and ejecta blanket. After observing the Centaur impact, the SSC became an impactor itself. The principal measurement goals of the LCROSS mission were to establish the form and concentration of the hydrogen-bearing material observed by Lunar Prospector, characterization of regolith within a PSR (including composition and physical properties), and the characterization of the perturbation to the lunar exosphere caused by the impact itself.     

Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector for the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

The design of the Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) experiment is presented, which was optimized to address several of the primary measurement requirements of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO): high spatial resolution hydrogen mapping of the Moon’s upper-most surface, identification of putative deposits of appreciable near-surface water ice in the Moon’s polar cold traps, and characterization of the human-relevant space radiation environment in lunar orbit. A comprehensive program of LEND instrument physical calibrations is discussed and the baseline scenario of LEND observations from the primary LRO lunar orbit is presented. LEND data products will be useful for determining the next stages of the emerging global lunar exploration program, and they will facilitate the study of the physics of hydrogen implantation and diffusion in the regolith, test the presence of water ice deposits in lunar cold polar traps, and investigate the role of neutrons within the radiation environment of the shallow lunar surface.     

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Overview: The Instrument Suite and Mission

NASA’s Lunar Precursor Robotic Program (LPRP), formulated in response to the President’s Vision for Space Exploration, will execute a series of robotic missions that will pave the way for eventual permanent human presence on the Moon. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is first in this series of LPRP missions, and plans to launch in October of 2008 for at least one year of operation. LRO will employ six individual instruments to produce accurate maps and high-resolution images of future landing sites, to assess potential lunar resources, and to characterize the radiation environment. LRO will also test the feasibility of one advanced technology demonstration package. The LRO payload includes: Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) which will determine the global topography of the lunar surface at high resolution, measure landing site slopes, surface roughness, and search for possible polar surface ice in shadowed regions, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) which will acquire targeted narrow angle images of the lunar surface capable of resolving meter-scale features to support landing site selection, as well as wide-angle images to characterize polar illumination conditions and to identify potential resources, Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) which will map the flux of neutrons from the lunar surface to search for evidence of water ice, and will provide space radiation environment measurements that may be useful for future human exploration, Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE) which will chart the temperature of the entire lunar surface at approximately 300 meter horizontal resolution to identify cold-traps and potential ice deposits, Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) which will map the entire lunar surface in the far ultraviolet. LAMP will search for surface ice and frost in the polar regions and provide images of permanently shadowed regions illuminated only by starlight. Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER), which will investigate the effect of galactic cosmic rays on tissue-equivalent plastics as a constraint on models of biological response to background space radiation. The technology demonstration is an advanced radar (mini-RF) that will demonstrate X- and S-band radar imaging and interferometry using light weight synthetic aperture radar. This paper will give an introduction to each of these instruments and an overview of their objectives.     

月球探测器加速度响应预测的时域子结构方法

航天器结构的日益复杂和庞大为全系统级的动力学仿真带来了更大的困难和挑战,目前主要采用动态子结构法来提高分析求解效率,并解决不同设计部门之间的模型共享和技术保护问题。月球探测器软着陆阶段的冲击力学环境一般由加速度冲击响应谱描述,由于高阶振型对结构加速度响应的影响要比对位移响应的影响大得多,所以在小阻尼情况下,经典的基于模态的子结构方法在相同截断频率下对加速度响应的预测精度远低于位移响应。为解决这一问题,引进基于脉冲响应函数的时域子结构(IBS)方法,提出了一种适用于预测加速度响应的降阶形式的迭代求解格式。利用探测器着陆数值模拟试验中测得的缓冲机构作用力作为激励,分别采用固定界面模态综合(CB)法和IBS方法分析了月球探测器的加速度响应。数值算例表明,后者在计算精度和求解效率方面均高于前者,并说明基于脉冲响应函数的子结构方法适于对月球探测器加速度响应进行高精度快速预测。     

嫦娥三号着陆器统计定位精度分析

“嫦娥三号”将在月球放置着陆器,实现月面软着陆,因此,需要对着陆器进行精确定位.本文简述了月球着陆器的统计定位方法与协方差分析理论,分析了影响统计定位精度的主要误差源.基于现有测控条件,从跟踪弧段和测量数据组合2个方面,对“嫦娥三号”着陆器的定位精度进行了分析.针对短弧条件下单站测距数据定位不稳键的问题,提出了结合月面高程约束的定位方法.协方差分析结果表明：高程数据的使用可以实现单站30 min测距优于1 km的定位精度;当观测数据累积至3d时,单站测量与VLBI（Very Long Baseline Interferometry,甚长基线干涉测量）的不同组合可以实现同等量级、优于百m的定位精度;测量系统差是制约定位精度的主要因素,完全标校测量的系统偏差则能实现10 m左右的定位精度.     

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment

The Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will be the first instrument to systematically map the global thermal state of the Moon and its diurnal and seasonal variability. Diviner will measure reflected solar and emitted infrared radiation in nine spectral channels with wavelengths ranging from 0.3 to 400 microns. The resulting measurements will enable characterization of the lunar thermal environment, mapping surface properties such as thermal inertia, rock abundance and silicate mineralogy, and determination of the locations and temperatures of volatile cold traps in the lunar polar regions.     

Lunar habitat concept employing the space shuttle external tank

The space shuttle external tank, which consists of a liquid oxygen tank, an intertank structure, and a liquid hydrogen tank, is an expendable structure used for approximately 8.5 min during each launch. A concept for outfitting the liquid oxygen tank-intertank unit for a 12-person lunar habitat is described. The concept utilizes existing structures and openings for both man and equipment access without compromising the structural integrity of the tank. Living quarters, instrumentation, environmental control and life support, thermal control, and propulsion systems are installed at Space Station Freedom. The unmanned habitat is then transported to low lunar orbit and autonomously soft landed on the lunar surface. Design studies indicate that this concept is feasible by the year 2000 with concurrent development of a space transfer vehicle and manned cargo lander for crew changeover and resupply.     

脉冲子结构与有限元刚-弹混合连接的子结构方法

航天器结构的日益复杂庞大对系统级的动力学建模仿真以及进一步的结构优化提出了巨大挑战。为提高动力学求解效率,通常引用动态子结构方法。本文利用适于处理瞬态冲击问题的脉冲子结构(IBS)方法,并对其进行改进,将基于脉冲响应函数(IRF)的子结构与有限元建立的子结构综合,同时考虑刚性、弹性以及刚-弹混合连接情形下的子结构综合格式。通过3个数值算例,验证了方法的正确性。最后将刚-弹混合连接下的子结构方法应用到月球探测器软着陆的动态响应预测,结果表明该方法适于对月球探测器软着陆动态响应进行高精度快速预测,并且可以应用于月球探测器的局部动力学结构优化。     

载人月球软着陆任务紧急中止轨道分析与设计

针对载人月球软着陆进程中,由载人飞船发动机失效引起的任务中止问题,首先分析主发动机失效可能引起的撞月轨道、环绕轨道、逃逸轨道等轨道类型及其特点;然后分析了中止任务执行的前提条件及中止过程的导航制导要求,在此基础上,考虑二体模型,提出普适的共面软着陆中止轨道计算方法;最后,在考虑登月飞船生保系统时间限制条件下,给出下降级主发动机失效情况下,撞月轨道的中止仿真算例。仿真结果表明,该方法可以实现登月飞船软着陆制动故障情形下的任务中止,能够确保飞船安全返回环月轨道。