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Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS)—Instrument design and technical details |
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| Authors: | CJ Howe D Drummond B Maddison R Parker J Spencer M Grande J Huovelin J Gow L d’Uston |
| Institution: | a Space Science and Technology Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK b Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore, India c Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, CNRS/UPS, Toulouse, France d Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BZ, UK e Imaging for Space and Terrestrial Applications Group, School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK f Observatory, P.O. Box 14, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Abstract: | The UK-built Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) is flying as an ESA instrument on India's Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon. The Chandrayaan-1 mission launched on the 22nd October 2008 and entered a 100 km polar lunar orbit on the 12th November 2008. C1XS builds on experience gained with the earlier D-CIXS instrument on SMART-1, but will be a technically much more capable instrument. Here we describe the instrument design. |
| Keywords: | Detectors SCD Swept charge device X-ray fluorescence Moon |
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