The components of the Chandrayaan-1 mission included an orbiter and an impactor. The spacecraft carried 11 scientific instruments built in India, USA, UK, Germany, Sweden, and Bulgaria. The payloads onboard Chandrayaan-1 were:
- Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC)
- Hyper Spectral Imager (HySI)
- Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI)
- High Energy X-ray Spectrometer (HEX)
- Moon Impact Probe (MIP)
- Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS)
- Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyzer (SARA)
- Radiation Dose Monitor Experiment (RADOM)
- Near-Infrared Spectrometer (SIR-2)
- Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR)
- Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)
The payloads were developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the international scientific community. The mission objectives included chemical, mineralogical, and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon.
