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SMART-1 Mission to the Moon: Technology and Science Goals

Instruments and Overall Science Objectives

Six instruments will be operating in all mission phases (cruise/lunar), performing 10 distinct science and technology investigations (Table 1). Science instruments, led by Principal Investigators (PIs) were mostly funded from PIs and co-Is national sources. Technology Experiments, led by Technology Investigators (TIs) were partly funded by ESA. Three instruments are used for spacecraft and planetary environment studies: Electric Propulsion Diagnostic Package (EPDP), Spacecraft potentialPotential, Electron and Dust Experiment (SPEDE) and Radio Science Investigation with SMART-1 (RSIS). Lunar exosphere studies are planned for EPDP and SPEDE. Three instruments are used for lunar remote sensing: the global X-ray mapping spectrometer (D-CIXS), near infrared spectral mapping spectrometer (SIR), and the localised high spatial resolution colour imaging camera of the lunar surface (AMIE). Overall science objectives for the mission are shown in Table 2.

Instrument Mass
(kg)		 Power
(W)
EPDP (Electric Propulsion Diagnostic Package) 2.4 18
SPEDE (Spacecraft Potential Electron and Dust Exp.) 0.8 1.8
KATE (ka-Band TT&C Experiment) 6.2 26
RSIS (Radio-Science Investigations for SMART-1) (using KATE & AMIE)
D-CIXS (Demo Compact Imaging X-ray Spectrometer) 5.2 18
XSM (X-ray Solar Monitoring) (with D-CIXS)
SIR (SMART-1 Infrared Spectrometer) 2.3 4.1
AMIE (Advanced Moon micro-Imager Experiment) 2.1 9
Laserlink (Experimental Deep-space Laser link) (using AMIE)
OBAN (On-Board Autonomous Navigation Exp.) (using AMIE)

Table 1. SMART-1 Instruments and Investigations

Cruise Science
- Earth and magnetospheric imaging
- X-ray monitoring of Sun & cosmic sources
Lunar Science
- First global X-ray mapping of Mg, Al, Si (50 km resolution)
- First infrared spectral mineralogy mapping 0.9-2.5
- Colour imaging via 0.75, 0.9, 0.95 µm + clear white channels
- Local multiband mapping at 30 µm resolution from 300 km
- Polar areas illumination and resource mapping

Table 2. Overall Science Measurement Objectives for SMART-1

Last Update: 02 June 2004

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