Universe Exploration and Drilling Technique

Abstract:

Drilling has been one of the first batch of techniques for human universe exploration. Take the example of lunar drilling, the paper discussed the drilling characteristics and the difficulties in other celestial bodies; introduced the light, reliable and automatic lunarsurface sampling machine, which was developed by the drilling experts and aerospace experts of US and the former Soviet, and the status of drilling technology; analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of various drilling schemes and proposed some ideas to the auto sampling and returning technology for “the Thirdphase of Chang’e Program”.