Chandrayaan-1
Chandrayaan-1 is India's first lunar mission and was successfully launched in October 2008. The spacecraft payload consists of 11 instruments to map the surface of the moon in terms of chemical and minerological composition and topography. The group is involved with the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer instrument (C1XS) and has carried out testing and calibration of flight candidate swept-charge devices (SCDs) for the instrument. The group has also provided support in terms of radiation damage expertise and radiation environment modelling for the C1XS detectors.
Further information about Chandrayaan-1 can be obtained from the Indian Space Research Organisation Chandrayaan-1 web pages.
Further information about the C1XS instrument can be obtained from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory C1XS web pages.
