Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS)—Instrument design and technical details
Grande, M.; Huovelin, J.; Howe, C. J.; Kellett, B. J.; Drummond, D.; Edeson, R.; Maddison, B.; Parker, D. J.; Parker, R.; Shrivastava, A.; Spencer, J.; Sreekumar, P.; Smith, D. R.; Gow, J.; Narendranath. K. C., S.; d'Uston, L.
United Kingdom, India, Finland, France
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.