Chinese Space Science and Technology ›› 2011, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (5): 70-75.doi: 10.3780/j.issn.1000-758X.2011.05.010

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Soft Landing Impact Simulation of Lunar Lander

 LIN  Qing, NIE  Hong, CHEN  Jin-Bao, WAN  Jun-Lin, LI  Li-Chun   

  1. (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016)
  • Received:2010-11-19 Revised:2011-01-19 Published:2011-10-25 Online:2011-10-25

Abstract: To improve the analysis accuracy of soft landing impact response for lunar lander, a method based on nonlinear transient dynamic analysis was presented. In view of the influence of the flexibility of lunar lander and regolith on impact response of payloads, the flexible models for the lander and regolith were built by MSC.PATRAN based on a certain lunar lander. Then, the transient dynamics software MSC.DYTRAN was used to simulate the payloads impact response of soft landing. It shows that the simulation is consistent with experimental results. The proposed method analyzes the landing impact response for several payloads accurately and simulates the actual landing conditions of lunar lander realistically.

Key words: Flexible model, Transient dynamics, Soft landing, Simulation, Lunar lander