SELENE

Kaguya

Mission type| Lunar orbiter
Operator| JAXA
COSPAR ID| 2007-039A
SATCAT no.| 32054
Mission duration| 1 year and 9 months (launch date to decay date)
Spacecraft properties
Manufacturer| NEC Toshiba Space Systems
Launch mass| Total: 3,020 kilograms (6,660 lb)
* Main orbiter (Kaguya): 2,914 kilograms (6,424 lb)
* Relay Satellite (Okina): 53 kilograms (117 lb)
* VLBI Satellite (Ouna): 53 kilograms (117 lb)[1][2]
Power| 3,486 watts
Start of mission
Launch date| September 14, 2007, 01:31:01 (2007-09-14UTC01:31:01Z) UTC
Rocket| H-IIA 2022 F13
Launch site| Tanegashima Yoshinobu 1
Contractor| Mitsubishi
End of mission
Disposal| Deorbited (Moon impact)
Decay date| June 10, 2009, 18:25 (2009-06-10UTC18:26Z) UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system| Selenocentric
Periselene altitude| 281 kilometres (175 mi)[3]
Aposelene altitude| 231,910 kilometres (144,100 mi)[3]
Inclination| 29.9 degrees[3]
Period| 7109.28 seconds[3]
Epoch| September 29, 2007[3]
Lunar orbiter
Orbital insertion| October 3, 2007
Impact site|  [ ⚑ ] 65°30′S 80°24′E﻿ / ﻿65.50°S 80.4°E﻿ / -65.50; 80.4[4]
Instruments

* X-ray Spectrometer (XRS)
* Gamma-ray spectrometer (GRS)
* Multi-band Imager (MI)
* Spectral Profiler (SP)
* Terrain Camera (TC)
* Lunar Radar Sounder (LRS)
* Laser Altimeter (LALT)
* Lunar Magnetometer (LMAG)
* Charged Particle Spectrometer (CPS)
* Plasma energy Angle and Composition Experiment (PACE)
* Radio Science (RS)
* Upper-atmosphere and Plasma Imager (UPI)
* Relay Satellite aboard Okina (RSAT)
* VLBI Radio source aboard Okina and Ouna (VRAD)
* High Definition Television cameras (HDTV)

SELENE (/ˈsɛlɪniː/; Selenological and Engineering Explorer), better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya (かぐや), was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe.[5] Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007. After orbiting the Moon for a year and eight months, the main orbiter was instructed to impact on the lunar surface near the crater Gill on June 10, 2009.[6]

## Contents

* 1 Nickname
* 2 Mission objectives
* 3 Launch
* 4 Lunar operations
* 5 Design
* 5.1 Main orbiter
* 5.2 Okina (small relay satellite)
* 5.3 Ouna (VLBI satellite)
* 6 Instruments
* 7 Results
* 8 Other lunar probes
* 9 See also
* 10 References
* 11 External links

## Nickname

"The Receding Princess" from The Japanese Fairy Book, 1908

The orbiter's nickname, Kaguya, was selected by the general public. It comes from the name of a lunar princess in the ancient Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.[7] After their successful release, its sub-satellites, Rstar and Vstar, were named Okina and Ouna, also derived from characters in the tale.[8]

## Mission objectives

The main scientific objectives of the mission were to:

* Study the origins[broken anchor] of the Moon and its geologic evolution
* Obtain information about the lunar surface environment

## Launch

Launch of H-IIA F13 carrying SELENE (Photo by Narita Masahiro)

SELENE launched on September 14, 2007, at 01:31:01 UTC on an H-IIA (Model H2A2022) carrier rocket from Tanegashima Space Center into a 281.55-kilometre (174.95 mi) (perigee) / 232,960-kilometre (144,750 mi) (apogee) geocentric parking orbit.[9][10] The total launch mass was 3,020 kilograms (6,660 lb).[1][2]

The SELENE mission was originally scheduled to launch in 2003, but rocket failures on another mission and technical difficulties delayed the launch until 2007.[11] Launch was planned for August 16, 2007, but was postponed when some electronic components were found to be installed incorrectly.[12]

## Lunar operations

On October 3, it entered an initial 101-to-11,741-kilometre (63 to 7,296 mi) polar lunar orbit.[13] On October 9, the relay satellite was released into a 100-to-2,400-kilometre (62 to 1,491 mi) orbit, while on October 12 the VLBI satellite was released into a 100-to-800-kilometre (62 to 497 mi) one.[8] Finally, by October 19, the orbiter was in a circular 100-kilometre (62 mi) orbit.[14] The nominal mission duration was one year plus possible extensions.

On October 31, 2007, Kaguya deployed its Lunar Magnetometer, Lunar Radar Sounder, Earth-looking Upper Atmosphere and Plasma Imager. On December 21, 2007, Kaguya began regular operations after all fifteen observation experiments had been satisfactorily verified.

Kaguya completed the planned operation by the end of October 2008 and began extended operations planned to continue through March 2009. It would then be sent into a circular 50-kilometre (31 mi) orbit, and finally to an elliptical 20-to-100-kilometre (12 to 62 mi) one, with a controlled impact occurring by August 2009.[15] Because of a degraded reaction wheel, the plan was changed so that on February 1, 2009, the orbit was lowered to 50 kilometres (31 mi) ± 20 kilometres (12 mi),[16] and impact with lunar surface occurred at 18:25 UTC on June 10, 2009.[6]

## Design

The mission featured three separate spacecraft:

### Main orbiter

Source:[1]

* Shape: octagonal prism
* Mass: 2,914 kilograms (6,424 lb)
* Size: 2.1 x 2.1 x 4.8 m (6.9 x 6.9 x 16 ft)
* Attitude control: Three-axis stabilized
* Power: 3.5 kW (Max.)
* Mission period: 1 year
* Mission orbit: Circular, 100-kilometre (62 mi)
* Inclination: 90 degrees

### Okina (small relay satellite)

Okina (formerly Rstar) and Ouna (formerly Vstar) were octagonal prisms to support radio science. Okina relayed radio communications between the orbiter and the Earth when the orbiter was behind the Moon. This allowed, for the first time, the direct Doppler shift measurements needed to precisely map the gravitational field of the lunar farside; previously, the farside gravity field could only be inferred by nearside measurements. The relay satellite impacted the lunar farside near the Mineur D crater at 19:46 JST (10:46 UTC) on February 12, 2009.[16]

* Function: two-way radio science relay, orbiter-earth
* Mass: 53 kilograms (117 lb)[1]
* Size: 1.0 x 1.0 x 0.65 m (3.3 x 3.3 x 2.1 ft)
* Attitude control: spin-stabilized
* Power: 70 W
* Initial orbit: 100 to 2,400 kilometres (62 to 1,491 mi)
* Inclination: 90 degrees

### Ouna (VLBI satellite)

Ouna used Very Long Baseline Interferometry as a second way to map the Moon's gravity field. It was especially useful at the lunar limb, where the gravitational acceleration is perpendicular to the line of sight to Earth, making Doppler measurements unsuitable.

* Function: VLBI radio science
* Mass: 53 kilograms (117 lb)
* Size: 1.0 x 1.0 x 0.65 m (3.3 x 3.3 x 2.1 ft)
* Attitude control: spin-stabilized
* Power: 70 W
* Initial orbit: 100 to 800 kilometres (62 to 497 mi)
* Inclination: 90 degrees

## Instruments

First optical still captured by the onboard HDTV camera. Earth is seen at a distance of 11,000 km.[17]

SELENE carried 13 scientific instruments "to obtain scientific data of the lunar origin and evolution and to develop the technology for the future lunar exploration":[18]

* Terrain camera (TC) (resolution 10 meters [33 ft] per pixel)[19]
* X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (XRS)
* Lunar magnetometer (LMAG)
* Spectral profiler (SP) (resolution per pixel: 562 x 400 m [1840 x 1310 ft)
* Multi-band imager (MI) (resolution of visible light 20 [66 ft] meters per pixel, near-infrared 62 meters [200 ft] per pixel)
* Laser altimeter (LALT)
* Lunar radar sounder (LRS)
* Gamma ray spectrometer (GRS)
* Charged particle spectrometer (CPS)
* Plasma analyzer (PACE)
* Upper atmosphere and plasma imager (UPI)
* Radio wave repeater (RSAT) aboard Okina
* Radio wave source for VLBI (VRAD) aboard Okina and Ouna

Two 2.2 megapixel CCD HDTV cameras, one wide-angle and one telephoto, were also on board, primarily for public outreach.[20] The HDTV system, developed by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), produced over 1.3 TB of video and stills over 19 months.[21]

JAXA collected names and messages that were carried on SELENE through their "Wish Upon the Moon" campaign.[22] 412,627 names and messages were printed on a sheet measuring 280 mm x 160 mm (11 x 6.3 in) at 70 μm (0.0003 in) per character. The sheet was installed under the photovoltaic modules and cooling panels beneath the multi-layered insulation.[23]

## Results

Major results include:

* Improved lunar global topography maps.[24] This detailed altitude and geological data was provided to Google for free to make Google Moon 3-D.
* Detailed gravity map of the far side of the Moon.[25]
* First optical observation of the permanently shadowed interior of the crater Shackleton at the lunar south pole.[26]
* Evidence of Earth's oxygen being transported to the Moon via magnetospheric ions.[27]

## Other lunar probes

SELENE was part of a renewed global interest in lunar exploration; it was "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program".[28] It followed Japan's first lunar probe, Hagoromo, launched in 1990.[5][29] China launched its Chang'e 1 lunar explorer on October 24, 2007, followed by India's October 22, 2008 launch of Chandrayaan-1 and the United States Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June 2009. The United States, European countries (ESA), Russia, Japan, India and China are planning future crewed lunar exploration missions or lunar outpost construction on the Moon between 2018 and 2025.[30]

## See also

* SELENE-2
* List of missions to the Moon
* Exploration of the Moon

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "平成19年度夏期ロケット打ち上げおよび追跡管制計画書 (Rocket Launch and Tracking Control Plan, Summer 2007)" (in ja). MHI / JAXA. http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/06/20070613_sac_h2a-f13.pdf.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "SELENE/Kaguya". NASA. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220000366/downloads/Ahrens_Kaguya_overview.pdf.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. http://planet4589.org/space/log/satcat.txt.
4. ↑ "Result of controlled drop of lunar orbiter "KAGUYA (SELENE)"". JAXA. https://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/06/20090611_kaguya_j.html.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Kaguya – Another Chapter for the Lunar Saga". Red Orbit. September 14, 2007. http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1066163/kaguya__another_chapter_for_the_lunar_saga/index.html.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "KAGUYA Lunar Impact". JAXA. http://www.kaguya.jaxa.jp/en/communication/KAGUYA_Lunar_Impact_e.htm.
7. ↑ ""KAGUYA" selected as SELENE's nickname". http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/special/nickname_e.html.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "KAGUYA (SELENE) / Result of the Separation of the VRAD Satellite (Vstar)" (Press release). October 12, 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved October 13, 2007.
9. ↑ Emily Lakdawalla (September 14, 2007). "Kaguya Rockets Toward the Moon". http://planetary.org/news/2007/0914_Kaguya_Rockets_Toward_the_Moon.html.
10. ↑ MHI / JAXA. "H-IIAロケット13号機による月周回衛星「かぐや」の打上げ結果について（速報）" (in ja). http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/09/20070919_sac_h2a-f13.pdf.
11. ↑ "Japan launches first lunar probe". BBC News. September 14, 2007. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6994272.stm.
12. ↑ "Launch Postponement of the KAGUYA (SELENE)". July 20, 2007. http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/07/20070720_kaguya_e.html.
13. ↑ "KAGUYA (SELENE) Result of the Lunar Orbit Injection Maneuver (LOI1) – Lunar orbit injection was confirmed" (Press release). JAXA. October 5, 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved October 5, 2007.
14. ↑ "かぐや/H-IIA13号機 打上げ特設サイト" (in ja). http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/index_j.html.
15. ↑ "月周回衛星「かぐや（SELENE）」の定常運用終了と後期運用計画について" (in ja). November 5, 2008. http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2008/11/20081105_sac_kaguya.pdf.
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "月周回衛星「かぐや（SELENE）」の 状況について" (in ja). February 18, 2009. http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/02/20090218_sac_kaguya.pdf.
17. ↑ "PDAP Search Results". https://www.darts.isas.jaxa.jp/planet/project/selene/hdtv/pdap/?RETURN_TYPE=HTML&RESOURCE_CLASS=HDTV_PRODUCT&LOCALE=en&DISPLAY_ORDER=PRODUCT_ID.
18. ↑ "Kaguya (SELENE)". JAXA. http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/index_e.htm.
19. ↑ "LISM [TC, MI, SP"]. Kaguya (SELENE). JAXA. http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/en/equipment/tc_e.htm.
20. ↑ "KAGUYA (SELENE) – Mission Instruments – HDTV". http://www.kaguya.jaxa.jp/en/equipment/hdtv_e.htm.
21. ↑ "Results of High-Definition Television System (HDTV) on Board SELENE (KAGUYA)". 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2009). https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2009/pdf/2540.pdf. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
22. ↑ "Send a New Year's Message to the Moon on Japan's SELENE Mission: Buzz Aldrin, Ray Bradbury and More Have Wished Upon the Moon" (Press release). The Planetary Society. January 11, 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved July 14, 2007.
23. ↑ "セレーネ「月に願いを!」(SELENE "Wish Upon the Moon!")" (in ja). JAXA. 2007. http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/j/new/event/selene_camp/topics.shtml.
24. ↑ H. Araki (February 13, 2009). "Lunar Global Shape and Polar Topography Derived from Kaguya-LALT Laser Altimetry". Science 323 (5916): 897–900. doi:10.1126/science.1164146. PMID 19213910. Bibcode: 2009Sci...323..897A.
25. ↑ N. Namiki (February 13, 2009). "Farside Gravity Field of the Moon from Four-Way Doppler Measurements of SELENE (Kaguya)". Science 323 (5916): 900–905. doi:10.1126/science.1168029. PMID 19213911. Bibcode: 2009Sci...323..900N.
26. ↑ J. Haruyama (November 7, 2008). "Lack of Exposed Ice Inside Lunar South Pole Shackleton Crater". Science 322 (5903): 938–939. doi:10.1126/science.1164020. PMID 18948501. Bibcode: 2008Sci...322..938H.
27. ↑ Terada, Kentaro; Yokota, Shoichiro; Saito, Yoshifumi; Kitamura, Naritoshi; Asamura, Kazushi; Nishino, Masaki (January 30, 2017). "Biogenic oxygen from Earth transported to the Moon by a wind of magnetospheric ions". Nature Astronomy 1 (2): 0026. doi:10.1038/s41550-016-0026. Bibcode: 2017NatAs...1E..26T.
28. ↑ "SELENE: The largest lunar mission since the Apollo program". http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/selene/index_e.html.
29. ↑ "Hiten". NASA. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1990-007A.
30. ↑ "NASA Authorization Act of 2008 – Section 404 – Lunar Outpost". Library of Congress. October 22, 2008. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.6063:.

## External links

* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Official project site, JAXA
* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Official launch information site, JAXA
* SELENE Mission Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration
* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. SELENE overview, ISAS/JAXA
* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Official YouTube channel, JAXA
* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. June 10th impact location
* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. NEC Corporation's Kaguya page, NEC Corporation
* JAXA Link – Video 12 min. before impact – close surface flyover

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* CUTE
* 1
* 1.7+APDII
* Fuji-3
* Hitomi
* Horyu
* 2
* Kiseki
* PROITERES
* Raijin
* RISING-2
* SEEDS
* SOCRATES
* XI
* IV
* V

Planned|

* DRUMS
* QSAT-EOS
* SOMESAT
* SPROUT
* TSUBAME
* WNI satellite

Reconnaissance|

| Completed|

* IGS-Optical
* 1
* 2
* Experimentally 3
* IGS-Radar
* 1
* 2

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In operation|

* IGS-Optical
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 6
* Experimentally 5
* IGS-Rader
* 3
* 4
* Spare
* 5
* 6

Planned|

* IGS-Optical
* 7
* 8
* IGS-Rader
* 7
* 8

* Italics indicates projects in development.
* Superscripts indicate joint development with1NASA, 2ESA, 3ASI, 4CSA, 5RKA, 6AEB and 7INPE.

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21st-century space probes

Active space probes
(deep space missions)|

| Moon|

* ARTEMIS
* Chandrayaan-2
* Chang'e 3
* Chang'e 4 (Yutu-2)
* Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

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Mars|

* ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

Venus|

* Akatsuki

Minor planet|

* Chang'e 2
* Hayabusa2 / MINERVA-II
* New Horizons
* OSIRIS-REx

Solar science|

* ACE
* DSCOVR
* Parker Solar Probe
* SOHO
* STEREO
* Wind

Others|

* BepiColombo
* Gaia
* Juno
* THEMIS
* Voyager 1
* Voyager 2

Completed after 2000
(by termination date)|

| 2000s|

* 2001
* NEAR Shoemaker
* Deep Space 1
* 2003
* Pioneer 10
* Galileo
* Nozomi
* 2004
* Genesis
* 2005
* Huygens
* 2006
* Mars Global Surveyor
* 2008
* Phoenix
* 2009
* Chang'e 1
* Ulysses
* Chandrayaan-1
* SELENE
* LCROSS

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2010s|

* 2010
* Hayabusa
* MER Spirit
* 2011
* Stardust
* 2012
* GRAIL
* 2013
* Deep Impact
* 2014
* LADEE
* Venus Express
* Chang'e 5-T1
* 2015
* MESSENGER
* PROCYON
* IKAROS
* 2016
* Rosetta / Philae
* Yutu
* ExoMars Schiaparelli
* 2017
* LISA Pathfinder
* Cassini
* 2018
* MASCOT
* Dawn
* Longjiang-1
* 2019
* MarCO
* MER Opportunity
* Beresheet
* Longjiang-2
* Vikram / Pragyan

* List of Solar System probes
* List of lunar probes
* List of space telescopes

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Orbital launches in 2007

Cartosat-2 * SRE-1 * Lapan-TUBsat * Pehuensat-1 | Progress M-59 | NSS-8 | Beidou-1D | THEMIS A * THEMIS B * THEMIS C * THEMIS D * THEMIS E | IGS Radar 2 * IGS Optical 3V | ASTRO * NEXTSat * MidSTAR-1 * FalconSAT-3 * STPSat-1 * CFESat | Skynet 5A * INSAT-4B | DemoFlight 2 | Soyuz TMA-10 | Anik F3 | Hai Yang 1B | Compass-M1 | EgyptSat 1 * Saudisat-3 * SaudiComsat-3 * SaudiComsat-4 * SaudiComsat-5 * SaudiComsat-6 * SaudiComsat-7 * CP-3 * CP-4 * CAPE-1 * Libertad 1 * AeroCube 2 * CSTB-1 * MAST | AGILE * AAM | NFIRE | AIM | Astra 1L * Galaxy 17 | Progress M-60 | NigComSat-1 | Yaogan 2 * Zheda PiXing 1 | Globalstar 65 * Globalstar 69 * Globalstar 71 * Globalstar 72 | Sinosat-3 | Kosmos 2427 | COSMO-1 | STS-117 (ITS S3/4) | Ofek-7 | TerraSAR-X | USA-194 | Genesis II | Kosmos 2428 | SAR-Lupe 2 | zhongxing 6B | DirecTV-10 | Progress M-61 | Phoenix | STS-118 (ITS S5 * SpaceHab LSM) | Spaceway-3 * BSAT-3a | INSAT-4CR | JCSAT-11 | Kosmos 2429 | Kaguya (Okina * Ouna) | Foton-M No.3 * YES2 | WorldView-1 | CBERS-2B | Dawn | Intelsat 11 * Optus D2 | Soyuz TMA-11 | USA-195 | USA-196 | Globalstar 66 * Globalstar 67 * Globalstar 78 * Globalstar 70 | Kosmos 2430 | STS-120 (Harmony) | Chang'e 1 | Kosmos 2431 * Kosmos 2432 * Kosmos 2433 | SAR-Lupe 3 * Rubin-7 | USA-197 | Yaogan 3 | Skynet 5B * Star One C1 | Sirius 4 | Globus-1M No.11L | COSMO-2 | USA-198 | Radarsat-2 | USA-199 | Horizons-2 * Rascom-QAF 1 | Progress M-62 | Kosmos 2434 * Kosmos 2435 * Kosmos 2436

Payloads are separated by bullets ( * ), launches by pipes ( | ). Crewed flights are indicated in bold text. Uncatalogued launch failures are listed in italics. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are denoted in brackets.

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