Apollo-traceable simulant for landing gear and touchdown testing, where the soil has to carry a load it sees once.
Touchdown is a single event with no second attempt. The landing gear meets the surface at descent velocity, the footpads penetrate, and the vehicle either settles inside its tip-over margin or it does not. What governs that outcome is the bearing behaviour of the soil under a short, high load, not how it responds to repeated traffic. Descent engine plume erosion changes the surface before the footpads reach it, so the bed a lander is qualified against has to represent disturbed regolith as well as undisturbed. Generic sand carries load differently from regolith at every one of those points.
Strocera supplies Regolithia reproducing its Apollo reference soils, Highland (RGS-H1) to Apollo 16 soil 64501 at phase match 96.4 % and Mare (RGS-M1) to Apollo 17 soil 72501 at phase match 99.2 %, both under one quality system. The particle size distribution and size fractions are published on each datasheet, so the test bed can be prepared to a stated condition and reproduced across drop-test campaigns. Alternative size fractions can be produced on request, and plume-disturbed surface conditions can be prepared from the same lot. Every lot ships with a characterization report referenced to its Apollo soil number, so landing loads measured in one campaign stay comparable to the next.
Full Regolithia specPhase match and bulk chemistry documented against the Apollo reference soil by XRD and SEM-EDS; configured per test campaign.
Lander structures and GNC teams qualifying landing gear, footpad geometry, and tip-over margin against a defined touchdown condition.
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