08-16-2017, 10:59 PM
Chandrayaan-1
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Introduction
India's maiden lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1 will be carrying eleven pay-loads.
Out of these eleven payloads, five instruments have been developed and designed in India, three are from European Space Agency, two are from United States and one is from Bulgaria.
When
Chandrayaan-1 planned to be launched in 2008 using spacecraft and launch vehicle of ISRO.
operational life of about 2 years
Why ??
probe the physical characteristics of the lunar surface in greater depth than previous missions by other nations
minerals, map the terrain and find out whether water and helium deposits
Ground Control
Three major elements
Deep Space Station (DSN)
Spacecraft Control Center (SCC)
Indian Space Science Data Center (ISSDC).
Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC)
To map topography in both near and far side of the Moon
To prepare a 3-dimensional atlas with high spatial and altitude resolution.
TMC payload is developed by ISRO.
Hyper Spectral Imager (HYSI)
To provide mineralogical mapping of the lunar surface.
To study data in deep crater regions/central peaks, which represents lower crust or upper mantle material.
High Energy X-ray Spectrometer (HEX)
Covers the hard X ray region from about 30 to about 250 keV.
To identify regions of high U/Th concentrations
To detect signal of other radioactivity.
To identify excess 210Pb in lunar polar regions
Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini SAR)
This will detect water ice in the permanently shadowed regions on the Lunar poles up to a depth of a few meters.
This radar mapper will allow viewing of all permanently shadowed areas on the Moon, regardless of whether sunlight is available or the angle is not satisfactory.