Lunar interior exploration by lunar penetrator mission

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Oct 1990

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IAF, International Astronautical Congress, 41st, Dresden, Federal Republic of Germany, Oct. 6-12, 1990. 8 p.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Lunar Soil, Penetrometers, Planetary Evolution, Seismology, Transfer Orbits, Heat Flux, Japanese Space Program, Lunar Surface, Spacecraft Equipment

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Penetrators are missile-shaped instrument carriers to be deployed from a spacecraft onto a planetary surface. The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science is planning to undertake a lunar penetrator mission, named Lunar-A, in the middle 1990s, for better understanding of the origin and evolution of the moon. The M-V, the newest version of the Mu series launch vehicles now under development, is expected to send a 550 kg of spacecraft carrying three penetrators to the lunar transfer orbit. The implanted penetrators will constitute a seismic and heat-flow measurement network of a larger span on the lunar surface. The present paper describes the outline and scientific implications of the lunar penetrator project.

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