Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) - Instrument design and technical details
- Howe, C. J.
- Drummond, D.
- Edeson, R.
- Maddison, B.
- Parker, D. J.
- Parker, R.
- Shrivastava, A.
- Spencer, J.
- Kellett, B. J.
- Grande, M.
- Sreekumar, P.
- Huovelin, J.
- Smith, D.
- Gow, J.
- Narendranath, S.
- d'Uston, L.
Publication date
June 2009
DOI Publisher
Elsevier BV ISSN
0032-0633 Language
English Citation count (estimate)
20Abstract
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
Add to ORKG