Nature Communications (Sep 2019)
Descent trajectory reconstruction and landing site positioning of Chang’E-4 on the lunar farside
- Jianjun Liu,
- Xin Ren,
- Wei Yan,
- Chunlai Li,
- He Zhang,
- Yang Jia,
- Xingguo Zeng,
- Wangli Chen,
- Xingye Gao,
- Dawei Liu,
- Xu Tan,
- Xiaoxia Zhang,
- Tao Ni,
- Hongbo Zhang,
- Wei Zuo,
- Yan Su,
- Weibin Wen
Affiliations
- Jianjun Liu
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xin Ren
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wei Yan
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chunlai Li
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- He Zhang
- China Academy of Space Technology
- Yang Jia
- China Academy of Space Technology
- Xingguo Zeng
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wangli Chen
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xingye Gao
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dawei Liu
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xu Tan
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xiaoxia Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Tao Ni
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hongbo Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wei Zuo
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yan Su
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Weibin Wen
- Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12278-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
The Chang’E-4 mission in January 2019 had the major challenge to land on the lunar far side without traditional radiometric techniques due to the missing line-of-sight. The authors here describe landing trajectory reconstruction and positioning techniques based upon the Moon’s digital terrain model that allowed reproducing the entire process of a successful landing.
