Chandrayaan-1 X-ray spectrometer (C1XS): instrument design & technical details

C. J. Howe, D. Drummond, R. Edeson, B. Maddison, D. J. Parker, R. Parker, A. Shrivastava, John R. Spencer, B. J. Kellett, M. Grande, P. Sreekumar, J. Huovelin, D. R. Smith, J. Gow, S. Narendranath K. C., L. d’Uston

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)735–743
JournalPlanetary and Space Science
Volume57
Issue number7
Early online date05 Feb 2009
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2009

Keywords

  • Detectors
  • SCD
  • Swept charge device
  • X-ray fluorescence
  • Moon

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