Design and Experiments of a Regolith Environment Simulator for Lunar Polar Region Exploration

Peineng Zhong; Jinchang Xu; Lusi Wang; Zeng Zhao; Qichen Sun; Ting Zeng; Haotian Wang; Jiabin Liu; Riyue Wu; Jiawei Dong; Kun Xu; Tao Zhang

doi:10.1007/978-981-97-0922-9_168

Design and Experiments of a Regolith Environment Simulator for Lunar Polar Region Exploration

Peineng Zhong
, Jinchang Xu
, Lusi Wang^*
, Zeng Zhao
, Qichen Sun
, Ting Zeng
, Haotian Wang
, Jiabin Liu
, Riyue Wu
, Jiawei Dong
, Kun Xu
, Tao Zhang^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation

Guangdong University of Technology
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Beihua University

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Abstract

Studies have shown that water ice exists in the permanently shadowed regions of lunar polar regions. The Chinese Chang’E 7 probe is planned to be launched around 2026 to find evidence of water at lunar Antarctica. To improve the safety and success rate, it is necessary to build a lunar polar regolith-environment simulator on the ground in advance to verify the feasibility of the water ice drilling. This paper designs a lunar polar environment simulator consisting of four parts: a vacuum acquisition system, a vacuum chamber system, a cooling system, and a monitoring system. Through prototype development and experiments, it has been successfully verified that the simulator can build a regolith environment in lunar polar regions. The pressure of the vacuum chamber can reach 10⁻¹ Pa with the diffusion pump system, the temperature of the refrigerated lunar regolith can reach – 185 °C with the liquid nitrogen circulation, and the lunar regolith environment can be adjusted and monitored.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Mechanical Design - The Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Mechanical Design, ICMD 2023
Editors	Jianrong Tan, Yu Liu, Hong-Zhong Huang, Jingjun Yu, Zequn Wang
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	2647-2658
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9789819709212
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0922-9_168
State	Published - 2024
Event	International Conference on Mechanical Design, ICMD 2023 - Chengdu, China Duration: 20 Oct 2023 → 22 Oct 2023

Publication series

Name	Mechanisms and Machine Science
Volume	155 MMS
ISSN (Print)	2211-0984
ISSN (Electronic)	2211-0992

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Mechanical Design, ICMD 2023
Country/Territory	China
City	Chengdu
Period	20/10/23 → 22/10/23

Keywords

Lunar polar region
Lunar regolith simulant
Regolith environment simulator
Thermal vacuum environment

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Zhong, P., Xu, J., Wang, L., Zhao, Z., Sun, Q., Zeng, T., Wang, H., Liu, J., Wu, R., Dong, J., Xu, K., & Zhang, T. (2024). Design and Experiments of a Regolith Environment Simulator for Lunar Polar Region Exploration. In J. Tan, Y. Liu, H.-Z. Huang, J. Yu, & Z. Wang (Eds.), Advances in Mechanical Design - The Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Mechanical Design, ICMD 2023 (pp. 2647-2658). (Mechanisms and Machine Science; Vol. 155 MMS). Springer Science and Business Media B.V.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0922-9_168

Zhong, Peineng ; Xu, Jinchang ; Wang, Lusi et al. / Design and Experiments of a Regolith Environment Simulator for Lunar Polar Region Exploration. Advances in Mechanical Design - The Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Mechanical Design, ICMD 2023. editor / Jianrong Tan ; Yu Liu ; Hong-Zhong Huang ; Jingjun Yu ; Zequn Wang. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2024. pp. 2647-2658 (Mechanisms and Machine Science).

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Design and Experiments of a Regolith Environment Simulator for Lunar Polar Region Exploration. / Zhong, Peineng; Xu, Jinchang; Wang, Lusi et al.
Advances in Mechanical Design - The Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Mechanical Design, ICMD 2023. ed. / Jianrong Tan; Yu Liu; Hong-Zhong Huang; Jingjun Yu; Zequn Wang. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2024. p. 2647-2658 (Mechanisms and Machine Science; Vol. 155 MMS).

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