月球原位资源利用技术研究

正月球上含有丰富的能源和矿产资源,太阳能和氦-3等都是地球能源之外的重要补充与额外储备,如能解决月球原位资源的开发与利用技术,则月球对于人类而言,就是一个几乎取之不尽、用之不竭的能源宝库,同时也能够为人类后续建造载人月球基地奠定基础。1引言绕月探测、落月探测、采样返回是人类开展月球探测的初级阶段,自1969年阿波罗-11(Apollo-11)     

《无线电规则》中关于深空研究的有关规定

□□深空(deepspace)的基本含义是相对于近空(nearspace)而言的,通常“深空”是指月球和月球以外的宇宙空间。根据探测的不同对象和区域,深空探测可分为日地空间探测、月球探测和行星探测。其中,月球探测是初期深空探测的重点。1深空的定义目前国际宇航界对深空的概念仍时有争论,国际电信联盟(ITU)作为国际无线电管理方面的权威机构,在其核心管理文件《无线电规则》中明确规定了深空的定义(第1.177款)。所谓深空,是指与地球的距离大于或等于2×106km的空间。ITU这样做的目的是为了规范无线电频率的使用,确保无线电频率资源合理而有序地得…     

第四届月球与深空探测国际会议(LDSE)

中国国家航天局拟于2019年7月22日至24日在中国珠海举办第四届月球与深空探测国际会议.旨在推进月球与深空探测领域的广泛交流,展示最新研究成果,开发科学研究新思路,并为全球行星科学界建立密切联系,会议主题包括:月球科学与行星科学的前沿,月球与深空探测技术及有效载荷新技术,未来月球与深空探测的科学愿景.     

太阳电池阵深空探测适应性设计概论

随着近年来月球探测的推进,深空探测的论证,针对深空探测对太阳电池阵低温度、低光强、强辐射等环境的技术需求,以火星探测和木星探测太阳电池阵设计分析为例,通过任务环境特点分析,给出了特殊服役环境下太阳电池选型方法,方阵设计与验证建议,对国内深空探测太阳电池阵设计具有一定参考意义。     

动能侵彻式星壤物性原位触探技术研究进展

动能侵彻式原位探测是一种获取星壤剖面结构、物质成分和物性参数的有效技术手段.综述了星壤剖面动能侵彻式原位探测技术的研究现状和发展趋势,提出了动能侵彻式原位触探的关键技术及其解决途径;结合中国未来深空探测总体规划和关键技术攻关需求,提出了适用于月球、火星及小天体的动能侵彻式原位触探方案,为即将实施的地外天体着陆探测工程立...     

中国月球及深空空间环境探测

深空探测承载着人类航天技术发展、探索宇宙奥秘和寻找地外生命及人类宜居地的重任,成为各航天大国关注的热点。我国月球与深空探测虽然起步晚,但起点高,正在追赶并将实现领先。简要回顾了我国月球及深空空间环境探测的载荷情况、数据结果、理论和应用研究成果,简述了当前在研的自主火星空间环境探测目标以及规划中的未来深空探测任务,并根据当前国际发展态势,及我国在研、规划中的月球及深空探测任务情况,分析了我国月球及深空空间环境探测的关键科学问题、载荷技术发展趋势、理论与模拟的研究需求,最后对深空环境探测进行了展望。     

深空探测人工智能技术研究与展望

面对深空探测远距离、极端环境等带来的一系列挑战,人工智能技术将成为以月球/行星驻留科学探测与资源开发利用为主体的未来深空探测任务的研究重点。在总结分析深空探测人工智能技术发展历程与态势的基础上,分析了深空探测人工智能技术的主要特点,并提出了需重点发展的关键技术。     

中国深空探测领域发展及展望

正深空探测一般指对月球及以远的地外天体进行空间探测的活动。20世纪50年代末,人类开启了深空探测的序幕。迄今为止,已发射深空探测任务超过240次,对太阳系内包括月球、行星、彗星、太阳等天体进行了探测,飞行最远的探测器距离地球超过200亿千米。通过深空探测,取得了大量科学探测和技术成果,拓展了人类对太阳系和宇宙的认识,推动了空间技术的进步。中国的深空探测起步于月球探测,按照探月工程"绕、落、回"三步走的任务规划,自2003年启动探月工程一期研制以来,已成功实施了4次探测任务;并正在按计划进行月球和火星探测任务的研制工作,即将在今后3年内发射实施。与此同时,正在论证后续月球、小天体、     

美国商业月球探测快速发展分析

正2018年5月3日,美国国家航空航天局(NASA)发表声明,取消"资源勘探者"(RP)月球巡视任务,原计划由该巡视器携带至月球的部分仪器,将改由商业月球着陆器运送。这是NASA在美国新航天政策指导下,广泛联合商业力量实施"重返月球"的重要举措,显示美国借助商业力量实施月球探测的步伐大幅加快,将对未来月球等深空探测活动发展产生重要影响。     

冷原子干涉技术原理及其在深空探测中的应用展望

简要介绍了基于冷原子干涉技术的陀螺仪与重力仪的特点以及国内外研究现状,重点介绍冷原子制备、冷原子分束、反射以及原子内态探测等冷原子干涉关键技术的基本原理及其实现方法。结合深空探测特点,冷原子干涉技术在深空探测领域潜在的应用有两个方面:一方面可应用于深空探测器在飞行、交互、对接以及着陆过程中的自主导航;另一方面可应用于深空探测器引力助推过程中的重力以及加速度的精密测量。     

Inner radiation belt source of helium and heavy hydrogen isotopes

Nuclear interactions between inner zone protons and atoms in the upper atmosphere provide the main source of energetic H and He isotopes nuclei in the radiation belt. This paper reports on the specified calculations of these isotope intensities using various inner zone proton intensity models (AP-8 and SAMPEX/PET PSB97), the atmosphere drift-averaged composition and density model MSIS-90, and cross-sections of the interaction processes from the GNASH nuclear model code. To calculate drift-averaged densities and energy losses of secondaries, the particles were tracked in the geomagnetic field (modelled through IGRF-95) by integrating numerically the equation of the motion. The calculations take into account the kinematics of nuclear interactions along the whole trajectory of trapped proton. The comparison with new data obtained from the experiments on board RESURS-04 and MITA satellites and with data from SAMPEX and CRRES satellites taken during different phases of solar activity shows that the upper atmosphere is a sufficient source for inner zone helium and heavy hydrogen isotopes. The calculation results are energy spectra and angular distributions of light nuclear isotopes in the inner radiation belt that may be used to develop helium inner radiation belt model and to evaluate their contribution to SEU (single event upset) rates.     

L'interaction entre le flot d'helium neutre d'origine interstellaire et l'heliosphere

Elastic collisions between neutral helium atoms from interstellar origin and protons from both the interstellar plasma in the heliospheric interface and the solar wind inside the heliosphere modify parameters of the helium gas. Upstream the heliopause, the helium atoms release momentum to the plasma, which results in a decrease of their bulk velocity, and remove energy from the plasma, which results in an increase of their temperature. Inside the heliosphere, the major part of the energy communicated by solar wind protons to helium atoms is transferred through scarce frontal collisions, which results in the creation of a hot tenuous He component in the downstream (with respect to the sun) region. The modification of the spatial He distribution function near the sun due to slightly deflected atoms is negligible in first approximation. Lastly, we emphasize that the collisional effect is probably insufficient to explain the high temperature of helium derived from photometric measurements of the interplanetary medium at 58.4 nm (16 000 K). By taking into account two other effects which are the light transfer in the He resonance line inside the focusing cone and a possible latitudinal anisotropy of the solar ionizing EUV flux, leading both to a lowering of the contrast of the cone, we show that the temperature discrepancy between H (8 000 K : spectral measurements : line width, Doppler shift) and He (16 000 K : photometric measurements) can be reasonably explained by the combined actions of these three effects : elastic collisions, light transfer at 58.4 nm inside the focusing cone, solar EUV flux latitudinal anisotropy.     

Low-thrust transfer to Backflip orbits

The aim of the work is to design a low-thrust transfer from a Low Earth Orbit to a “useful” periodic orbit in the Earth–Moon Circular Restricted Three Body Model (CR3BP). A useful periodic orbit is here intended as one that moves both in the Earth–Moon plane and out of this plane without any requirements of propellant mass. This is achieved by exploiting a particular class of periodic orbits named Backflip orbits, enabled by the CR3BP. The unique characteristics of this class of periodic solutions allow the design of an almost planar transfer from a geocentric orbit and the use of the Backflip intrinsic characteristics to explore the geospace out of the Earth–Moon plane. The main advantage of this approach is that periodic plane changes can be obtained by performing an almost planar transfer. In order to save propellant mass, so as to increase the scientific payload of the mission, a low-powered transfer is considered. This foresees a thrusting phase to gain energy from a departing circular geocentric orbit and a second thrusting phase to match the state of the target Backflip orbit, separated by an intermediate ballistic phase. This results in a combined application of a low-thrust manoeuvre and of a periodical solution in the CR3BP to realize a new class of missions to explore the Earth–Moon neighbourhoods in a quite inexpensive way. In addition, a low-thrust transit between two different Backflip orbits is analyzed and considered as a possible extension of the proposed mission. Thus, also a Backflip-to-Backflip transfer is addressed where a low-powered probe is able to experience periodic excursions above and below the Earth–Moon plane only performing almost planar and very short transfers.     

Maps of hydrogen isotopes at low altitudes in the inner zone from sampex observations

The PET instrument aboard the SAMPEX satellite has provided us with long-term intra-calibrated observations of geomagnetically trapped protons and deuterons in the inner zone, suitable for use in constraining the low-altitude portions of radiation belt models being developed as successors to AP-8. These observations have been summarized elsewhere (Looper et al., 1996). Here we report a detection of geomagnetically-trapped tritium at energies from 14 to 35 MeV/nuc below L = 1.2, at about 1/8 the flux of deuterium previously reported at that location and at similar energy per nucleon. We also demonstrate the utility of the SAMPEX/PET observations for measuring the east-west anisotropy in the trapped particle flux at low altitudes, which is due to displacement of particle gyrocenters from the position of observation in a region of strong flux gradients. This anisotropy is implicitly ignored in omnidirectional radiation-flux models, but it can be important to mission planners considering how to distribute shielding over the surface of oriented spacecraft in low Earth orbit.     

Sources of inner radiation zone energetic helium ions: Cross-field transport versus in-situ nuclear reactions

Radial transport theory for inner radiation zone MeV He ions has been extended by combining radial diffusive transport, losses due to Coulomb friction and charge exchange reaction with local generation of ³He and ⁴He ions due to nuclear reactions taking place on the inner edge of the inner radiation zone. From interactions between high energy trapped protons and upper atmospheric constituents we have included a nuclear reaction yield helium flux source that was numerically derived from a nuclear reaction model originally developed at the Institute of Nuclear Researches of Moscow, Russia and implemented in the computer system at the University of Campinas, Brazil. Magnetospheric transport computations have been made covering the L-shell range L=1.0 to 1.6 and the resulting MeV He ion flux distributions show a strong influence of the local nuclear source mechanism on the inner zone energetic He ion content.     

The sticking probability of a hydrogen atom on icy mantle.

In the present work, we investigate the sticking process of a hydrogen atom on the surface of dust grains. As a realistic model for the icy mantle of dust grains, we produced slab-shaped amorphous water ice with infinite area by classical molecular dynamics (MD) computational simulation using two-dimensional periodic boundary condition. The resulting amorphous water ice slabs at 10 K and 70 K were found to be in good agreement with the experimental high-density and low-density amorphous water ice, respectively. Then, we investigated the dynamical behaviors of an impinging H atom on the surface of it by MD simulations. The sticking probabilities of incident H atoms with several initial temperatures on 10 K and 70 K ice were obtained. It was found that most of H atoms colliding with the 10 K ice stuck on the surface of it. After having stuck, the impinging H atoms diffused on the surface of ice and became trapped in one of potential wells on the surface. The mobility of a H atom on the surface of the amorphous water ice was found to depend only upon the temperature of ice.     

Surface temperatures at the nearside of the Moon as a record of the radiation budget of Earth’s climate system

Understanding the balance between incoming radiation from the Sun and outgoing radiation from Earth is of critical importance in the study of climate change on Earth. As the only natural satellite of Earth, the Moon is a unique platform for the study of the disk-wide radiation budget of Earth. There are no complications from atmosphere, hydrosphere, or biosphere on the Moon. The nearside of the Moon allows for a focus on the solar radiation during its daytime, and on terrestrial radiation during its nighttime. Additionally, lunar regolith temperature is an amplifier of the terrestrial radiation signal because lunar temperature is proportional to the fourth square root of radiation as such is much more sensitive to the weak terrestrial radiation in nighttime than the strong solar radiation in daytime. Indeed, the long-term lunar surface temperature time series obtained inadvertently by the Heat Flow Experiment at the Apollo 15 landing site three decades ago may be the first important observation from deep space of both incoming and outgoing radiation of the terrestrial climate system. A revisit of the lunar surface temperature time series reveals distinct characteristics in lunar surface daytime and nighttime temperature variations, governed respectively by solar and terrestrial radiation.     

On the effects of electron-cyclotron masers during flares

First recognized by Wu and Lee (Ap. J. 230, 621, 1979), electron-cyclotron masers can be activated under very mild conditions. Large growth rates can occur even for relatively mild anisotropies in the electron velocity distribution, e.g., the one-sided loss cones that commonly occur when electrons with small pitch angles precipitate into high density regions at the footpoints of flaring loops while others are reflected in the converging field in the corona. Maser action can plausibly occur at the second harmonic of the local gyrofrequency and so explain certain very bright (? 10¹⁰ K) microwave bursts from the sun and other stars. However, the preponderance of the energy is at the first harmonic.We suggest that masers operating at the local gyrofrequency in a flaring loop generate radiation at decimeter wavelengths that is a significant fraction of the total energy of the flare, in fact (and not coincidentally) comparable with the energy in electrons associated with hard X-ray bursts. Essentially all of the radio energy is trapped in the corona and serves to produce localized heating in a volume large compared with the energy release region. Thus it can transfer energy by radiation from one magnetic loop to another, possibly inducing further instabilities, and spreading the course of the flare. Eventually the energy probably escapes the corona as soft X-rays. The electron-cyclotron maser saturates by extracting the perpendicular energy of the electrons, thereby diffusing them into the loss cone at the maximum possible rate; the enhanced precipitation into the footpoints can produce bright emission in hard X-rays, EUV and Hα and remove any necessity for directive acceleration in the energy release region.Details of the proposed mechanism and effects are contained in two papers by Melrose and Dulk (Ap. J. 259, 1982).This work was sponsored by NASA under grants NAGW-91 and NSG-7287 to the University of Colorado.     

信阳陨石热历史与原始氩特征

信阳陨石于1977年12月1日18时57分, 陨落在我国河南省信阳县肖王公社。陨落后, 破裂为X-Ⅰ(48kg)及X-Ⅱ(27.5kg)两大块和几小块碎屑。陶克捷等对该陨石做过化学组成、矿物组分及结构特征研究, 指出属H6型。本文试图根据40Ar/39Ar快中子活化资料及原始捕获氩同位素特征, 探讨信阳陨石的演化特点。      

氧在钒中基本热力学行为的第一性原理研究

钒(V)是核聚变反应堆结构材料的重要候选材料。实验表明杂质氧(O)会对V的结构和力学性能产生极大的影响。采用基于密度泛函理论的第一性原理方法研究了O在V中热力学稳定性、扩散特性以及与缺陷空位的相互作用。O在V中易于占据八面体间隙位,其溶解能为-4.942 eV。O在间隙位的最佳扩散路径为八面体间隙位→四面体间隙位→八面体间隙位,扩散激活能为1.728 eV,在此基础上对不同温度下的扩散系数在文中给出了详细分析。O在V中与空位存在很强的吸引相互作用,1个O原子和2个O原子被空位捕获时的捕获能分别为-0.484 eV和-0.510 eV。当O原子的数量超过3,其捕获能变为正值0.382 eV,因此单空位最多能够结合2个O原子,这意味着"O_1-vacancy"和"O_2-vacancy"团簇在V中很容易形成。这些研究结果将对V基合金在核聚变反应堆中的最终应用具有一定的参考价值。