The impact probe weighing 29 kg will ride piggyback on the top deck of the main orbiter and will be released at a predetermined time after the orbiter reaches the final 100km orbit to impact at a pre-selected location. During the descent phase it is in spin-stabilized configuration. The total flight time from release to impact on Moon will be close to twenty minutes.
Major Objectives:
Design, development and demonstration of technologies required for impacting a probe at a desired location on the moon.
Qualify technologies required for future soft landing missions.
Exploration of the moon from close range.
Payload Configuration Details
There will be three major payloads in the Moon Impact Probe
Radar Altimeter - for measurement of altitude of the Moon Impact Probe above the lunar surface and qualify technologies for future landing missions. The operating frequency band is 4.3 GHz ± 100 MHz
Video Imaging System - for acquiring images of the surface of moon from the descending probe. The video imaging system consists of analog CCD camera along with a video decoder
Mass Spectrometer - A state-of-the-art Quadrupole mass spectrometer with a mass resolution of 0.5 amu and sensitive to partial pressure of the order of 10-15 torr for measuring the constituents of tenuous lunar atmosphere during descent.
The dimension of the impact probe is 375 mm x 375 mm x 470 mm
