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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2020.48.3.233

Unmanned Lunar Exploration Failure Case Analysis  

Yang, Jeong-Hwan (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.48, no.3, 2020 , pp. 233-242 More about this Journal
Abstract
The history of mankind's lunar exploration began in 1958 with the United States of America "Pioneer 0" mission. In 1950s~1970s, the United States of America and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics carried out missions and experienced numerous failures to explore the moon. Since the 1990s, Japan, Europe, China and other Advanced country in Space technology have started to explore the moon and in 2016, Korea began to develop the lunar orbiter for lunar exploration. This paper analyzed the failure cases and causes of the lunar exploration in the USA and the USSR in the 1950s~1970s according to the mission purpose. Examples of mission delays, cancel, and failures that occurred during lunar exploration in post-1990s were presented. Through the investigation and analysis, this paper is intended to serve as a reference of the lunar exploration mission that Korea is working on or will be performing in the future.
Keywords
Lunar; Exploration; Failure; Delay; Cancel;
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