The Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft

The Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft during integration.

The payload panels, where the remote sensing instruments will be mounted, can be seen on the right. At the top, the interface panel for the Moon Impact Probe is shown where, among others, the SARA sensors will be mounted. At the time when this image was taken, only the SIR-2 instrument had been integrated.

In this orientation, the Moon will be at the bottom of the spacecraft during observations.