Preliminary Study on Transportation Concept for Future Lunar Exploration
Yosuke Ide, Masanori Tsuboi, and Gen Mano
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Abstract
This paper describes the launch architecture concept studied for near term and future lunar exploration
programs both manned and unmanned, following the SELENE project. Near term launch architecture
concept, which assumes to be applied to unmanned mission, such as lunar sample return, are based on
H-IIA/H-IIB launchers. And for future missions, such as manned explorations, two types of launch
architecture are studied in terms of magnitude of the total system architectures which impacts the
development cost.
月探査に向けた輸送構想に関する初期検討
井手 陽介，坪井 正徳，真野 元（三菱重工業（株））
摘要
月周回衛星SELENE に続く月探査計画として，無人探査機による月面への着陸，月サンプルリターン，及
び有人での月探査までを視野に入れたときの，輸送構想の初期検討結果について述べる。無人探査機につい
ては，近い将来の実現性を考慮して，H-IIA，H-IIB ファミリーによる月探査機の打上能力について示す。ま
た，有人での月探査については，その全体規模，モジュール構成案と2 種の打ち上げ方式の得失について示
す。