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The HETE Investigator Team

The HETE-2 Team has its headquarters at MIT, the PI institution. Science, instrument, and engineering team members are spread around the globe.

The HETE-2 participating institutions are:


HETE Investigator Team:

Principal Investigator: George R. Ricker
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Center for Space Research,
Cambridge, MA (USA)

MIT: George R. Ricker (PI)
Geoffrey Crew
John P.Doty
Al Levine
Roland Vanderspek
Joel Villasenor
Graduate Students: Nat Butler
Glen Monnelly
LANL: Edward E. Fenimore
Mark Galassi
RIKEN: Masaru Matsuoka
Nobuyuki Kawai
Atsumasa Yoshida
CESR: Jean-Luc Atteia
Gilbert Vedrenne
Jean-Francois Olive
Michel Boer
CNES: Jean-Luc Issler
SUPAERO: Christian Colongo
CNR: Graziella Pizzichini
INPE: Joao Braga
TIFR: Ravi Manchanda
UC-Berkeley: Kevin Hurley
J. Garrett Jernigan
University of Chicago: Donald Q. Lamb, Jr.
Carlo Graziani
UC-Santa Cruz Stanford Woosley.


HETE Engineering Team:

Project Manager: Robert Dill
Project Coordinator: Francois Martel
Contributors: Tye Brady
Dave Breslau
Janice Crisafulli
Mike Doucette
Arnaud Dupuy
Rick Foster
Jim Francis
Gene Galton
Greg Huffman
Steve Kissel
Frank LaRosa
Fred Miller
Gregory Prigozhin
Jerry Roberts
Michael Vezie
Col. Pete Young
Sangwoo Pak
Maxime de Villepin


HETE Consortium Institutions: