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15 - General Engineering
Brunel University London
Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS)—Instrument design and technical details
The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) instrument was successfully launched onboard the first Indian space mission to the Moon in November 2008 and returned valuable data about the composition of the lunar surface. Comprised of 24 innovative swept-charge device (SCD) silicon X-ray detectors manufactured in the UK by e2v technologies, C1XS was designed to operate in the extreme thermal and radiation environment encountered during a journey to the Moon and operation in lunar orbit. The international collaboration formed for the project has continued, a second generation of SCD subsequently being developed for an instrument on the planned 2015 Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission.