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Indian Space - News Folder - January 2007
ISRO: CHANDRAYAAN-1: India's first mission to the Moon
Scientific Objectives
The Spacecraft
GROUND SEGMENT FOR CHANDRAYAAN-1 MISSION
Scientific Payloads
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
Terrain Mapping stereo Camera (TMC)
Hyper Spectral Imaging camera (HYSI)
Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI)
High Energy X-ray spectrometer (HEX)
Moon Impact Probe(MIP)
Chandrayaan-1 Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) through ESA -a collaboration between Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK and ISRO Satellite Centre, ISRO. Part of this payload is redesigned by ISRO to suit Chandrayaan-1 scientific objectives.
Near Infra Red spectrometer (SIR-2) from Max Plank Institute, Lindau, Germany through ESA
Sub KeV Atom Reflecting Analyser (SARA) through ESA, from Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden and Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO. The Data Processing Unit of this payload/ experiment is designed and developed by ISRO, while Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Radiation Dose Monitor Experiment (RADOM) from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR) from Applied Physics
[url=http://www.isro.org/Chandrayaan/htmls/mmm_nasa.htm]Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M-CUBE) from Brown University and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA through NASA
Scientific Objectives
The Spacecraft
GROUND SEGMENT FOR CHANDRAYAAN-1 MISSION
Scientific Payloads
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
Terrain Mapping stereo Camera (TMC)
Hyper Spectral Imaging camera (HYSI)
Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI)
High Energy X-ray spectrometer (HEX)
Moon Impact Probe(MIP)
Chandrayaan-1 Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) through ESA -a collaboration between Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK and ISRO Satellite Centre, ISRO. Part of this payload is redesigned by ISRO to suit Chandrayaan-1 scientific objectives.
Near Infra Red spectrometer (SIR-2) from Max Plank Institute, Lindau, Germany through ESA
Sub KeV Atom Reflecting Analyser (SARA) through ESA, from Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden and Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO. The Data Processing Unit of this payload/ experiment is designed and developed by ISRO, while Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Radiation Dose Monitor Experiment (RADOM) from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR) from Applied Physics
[url=http://www.isro.org/Chandrayaan/htmls/mmm_nasa.htm]Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M-CUBE) from Brown University and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA through NASA