Scientific Payloads on Chandrayaan - 1

Chandrayaan-1 is an Indian Mission to the Moon. The indigenously developed payload/ experiments are:

TMC Terrain Mapping stereo Camera (TMC) in the panchromatic band, having 5 m spatial resolution and 20 km swath       HySI Hyper Spectral Imaging camera (HYSI) operating in 400-950nm band with a spectral resolution of 15nm and spatial resolution of 80m with a swath of 20km.       LLRI Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI) with height resolution of about 10m       HEX High Energy X-ray spectrometer (HEX) using Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride (CdZnTe) detector in the 30-250 keV energy region with spatial resolution of 40km       MIP Moon Impact Probe (MIP) as piggyback on the main orbiter of the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft which will impact on the surface of the moon

Apart from the above indigenous payloads/experiments, ISRO solicited proposals through an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) from International and Indian Scientific Community for participating in the mission by providing suitable scientific payloads complementing the Chandrayaan-1 objectives. Out of the proposals received, six experiments were finally selected for inclusion in Chandrayaan-1 mission. The AO payloads on-board Chandrayaan-1 are:

C1XS Chandrayaan-1 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. SIR-2 Near Infra Red spectrometer (SIR-2) from Max Plank Institute, Lindau, Germany through ESA SARA 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 develops the payload. RADOM Radiation Dose Monitor Experiment (RADOM) from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences MiniSAR Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR) from Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University and Naval Air Warfare Centre, USA through NASA M3 Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) from Brown University and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA through NASA