@article{786c15b1427c4fbfb7d39b5f3e04e785,
title = "SMART-1 mission to the moon: Status, first results and goals",
abstract = "We present the first results from SMART-1's science and technology payload. SMART-1 is Europe's first lunar mission and will provide some significant advances to many issues currently active in lunar science, such as our understanding of lunar origin and evolution. The mission also contributes a step in developing an international program of lunar exploration. The spacecraft was launched on 27 September 2003 on an Ariane 5, as an auxiliary passenger to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), performed a 14-month long cruise using the tiny thrust of electric propulsion alone, reached lunar capture in November 2004, and lunar science orbit in March 2005. SMART-1 carries seven hardware experiments (performing 10 investigations, including three remote sensing instruments, used during the cruise, the mission's nominal six months and one year extension in lunar science orbit). The remote sensing instruments will contribute to key planetary scientific questions related to theories of lunar origin and evolution, the global and local crustal composition, the search for cold traps at the lunar poles and the mapping of potential lunar resources.",
keywords = "Imaging payloads, Mineralogy, Moon, SMART-1, Surface composition, Technology",
author = "Foing, {B. H.} and Racca, {G. D.} and A. Marini and E. Evrard and L. Stagnaro and M. Almeida and D. Koschny and D. Frew and J. Zender and J. Heather and M. Grande and J. Huovelin and Keller, {H. U.} and A. Nathues and Josset, {J. L.} and A. Malkki and W. Schmidt and G. Noci and R. Birkl and L. Iess and Z. Sodnik and P. McManamon",
note = "Funding Information: Seven instruments are operating in all mission phases (cruise/lunar), performing 10 distinct science and technology investigations ( ). Science instruments, led by Principal Investigators (PIs), were mostly funded from PIs and Co-Is national sources. Technology Experiments, led by Technology Investigators (TIs), were partly funded by ESA. Three instruments are used for spacecraft ( . Table 1 Tajmar et al., 2002 ) and planetary environment studies: Electric Propulsion Diagnostic Package (EPDP), Spacecraft Potential, Electron and Dust Experiment (SPEDE) and Radio Science Investigation with SMART-1 (RSIS). Lunar exosphere studies are planned for EPDP and SPEDE. Three instruments are used for lunar remote sensing: the global X-ray mapping spectrometer (D-CIXS) with solar X-ray monitor (XSM), near infrared mapping spectrometer (SIR), and the localised high-spatial resolution colour imaging camera (AMIE). Overall science objectives for the mission are shown in Table 2 Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1016/j.asr.2005.12.016",
language = "English",
volume = "37",
pages = "6--13",
journal = "Advances in Space Research",
issn = "0273-1177",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "1",
}