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SUBMITTER: Go GH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7820600 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Go Gyu-Hyun GH Lee Jangguen J Chung Taeil T Ryu Byung Hyun BH Jin Hyunwoo H Zhuang Li L Shin Hyu Soung HS Kim Jae Hyun JH Yun Tae Sup TS
Scientific reports 20210121 1
A dusty thermal vacuum chamber (DTVC) containing a regolith simulant bed is essential for testing equipment and techniques related to lunar surface exploration. Space agencies have been reluctant to operate a DTVC because of the challenge of controlling soil disturbance of the lunar regolith simulant bed during pumping down or depressurization, which may contaminate or even damage the chamber and vacuum equipment. There appears to be no previously available solution to this problem, or how to av ...[more]