financially supported by Taishan Scholars Program of Shandong Province(No.tsqn201909010);the Key Basic and Applied Research Program of Guangdong Province(No.2019B030302010);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51901139,51971120 and U1902221);the Key R&D Program of Shandong Province(No.2022CXGC020308)。
While lunar bases have been a focus of development in recent years,the complex and extreme environment of the lunar surface remains a considerable challenge for lunar exploration.Unlike those on Earth,lunar day and ni...
In order to provide relay communication supports for future Chinese lunar exploration program,Queqiao-2 relay communication satellite was developed.Queqiao-2 can perform scientific observations with three kinds of sci...
supported by the PolyU RCDSE projects(Nos.P0049221 and P0041304);We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Prof.Feng Li and Dr.Siqi Zhou from Beihang University for providing us with the BH-1 simulant,which served as the crucial reference for the PolyU-1 simulant.We would like to thank the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42241103);the Key Research Program of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.IGGCAS-202101)。
Leading national space exploration agencies and private enterprises are actively engaged in lunar exploration initiatives to accomplish manned lunar landings and establish permanent lunar bases in the forthcoming year...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(L2224032);the Research Project on the Discipline Development Strategy of Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XK2022DXC004).
Lunar exploration is deemed crucial for uncovering the origins of the Earth-Moon system and is the first step for advancing humanity’s exploration of deep space.Over the past decade,the Chinese Lunar Exploration Prog...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant Nos.61903331 and 62088101.
In this paper we consider a trajectory planning problem arising from a lunar vertical landing with minimum fuel consumption.The vertical landing requirement is written as a final steering angle constraint,and a nonneg...
After performing a near-moon braking procedure,spacecraft Chang'e-6 successfully entered lunar orbit,the China National Space Administration(CNSA)said on May 8.
More than 20 years have passed since China launched its lunar exploration program in 2004.Across the two decades,the project adopted and completed each of its three-step development goals:reaching lunar orbit,landing ...
As the only natural satellite of the earth, the Moon has always been the first choice for human exploration of the solar system. China's lunar exploration project(Chang'e project) was launched in 2004. At present, it ...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11303001,11773004,61573049);Major Special Project of the National Lunar Exploration Program of China。
Libration points are vital for lunar and deep space explorations because of their unique positions and dynamics.This paper first traces the development of relevant missions since ISEE-3 and then presents the details o...
As the closest celestial body to the Earth, the moon is a hot spot for international space science research at present. Countries around the world have conducted lunar exploration time after time, among which, China’...