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Numerical study on modeling the soil footpad interaction of lunar soft landers at touchdown

Pucker, T.

Soft landers are a common systems for planetary exploration and have been successfully landed on Moon, Mars and the comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko. In this study numerical simulations of the touchdown process of soft landers on the moon surface are presented. The focus is on the soil footpad interaction and the resulting loading on the primary strut …