Research Article

Preliminary Thermal Design and Analysis of Lunar Lander for Night Survival

Table 2

Material properties applied to thermal model [22].

ParameterHighlandLunar mare

Thermo-optical propertiesSolar absorptivity [21]0.7030.924
Specularity (albedo) [21]0.2970.076
IR emissivity0.97

Thermo-physical propertiesThermal conductivity (W/m/K)Eq. (1)/Eq. (2) (dust/soil)
Density (kg/m3)1000/2000 (dust/soil)
Specific heat (J/kg/K)1050