Chandrayaan-1 has become a beacon of scientific collaborations between space agencies worldwide Chandrayaan-1 has become a beacon of scientific collaborations between space agencies worldwide, with six of the 11 payloads it is carrying having been developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA, Bulgaria, Sweden, and Germany. Chandrayaan-1 as a mission will focus on high-resolution remote sensing of the lunar surface in visible, near-infrared, X-ray and low energy gamma rays.
One of the payloads the lunar mission is carrying is the particle instrument SARA (Sub-Kev Reflection Atom Analyzer), which has been co-developed by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) at Kiruna, Sweden, and the Space Physics Laboratory of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (SPL-VSSC), at Thiruvananthapuram, India.
The project has contributions from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Japan.
