Abstract:
This paper briefly analyses the requirements of lunar suface environmental simulation test for manned lunar exploration mission, and reviews the technical developments. Several key technical problems of the lunar suface environmental simulation test for the manned lunar exploration mission are discussed, including the mobile multi-body simulation of the lunar gravity in the thermal vacuum environment, the high accurate simulation of the heat flow for the complex lunar surface environment, the pumping and holding technology of the super vaccum under the condition with a large volume of lunar dusts, the simulation of the lunar surface radiation and the lunar dust environment, the quantitative evaluation of the lunar dust protection effectiveness, and the verification test technique of the lunar surface combined environment. An overall research scheme of the lunar suface environmental simulation test technologies for the manned lunar exploration is proposed, as well as an outlook of the development goal of the related technologies.