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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:
MIT is the Principal Investigator institution for HETE: the HETE Principal Investigator is Dr. George Ricker. The CCD Laboratory of the Center for Space Research is responsible for the overall coordination of the HETE project.
The construction and testing of the spacecraft bus and the satellite control software are the responsibilty of MIT. The optical camera and soft X-ray camera systems were also constructed in the CCD Laboratory.
MIT is responsible for the primary ground station at Kwajalein and the burst alert stations at Ascension, Gabon, Kwajalein, Kiribati, and Galapagos.
The RIKEN team constructed and tested the WXM hardware. The RIKEN team is also responsible for the commanding and health of the WXM instrument on orbit.
RIKEN, in collaboration with Miyazaki University, constructed the primary ground station at the National University of Singapore. RIKEN is also responsible for the burst alert stations at Palau and Singapore.
The CESR team built and tested the Fregate instrument. They are also responsible for the Fregate flight software, operations, and on-orbit commanding. CESR is also responsible for the burst alert stations at Hiva Oa and Cayenne.
The LANL team is responsible for the design and construction of the WXM coded aperture and the WXM flight and ground support software.
The Chicago team is responsible for algorithms used to improve the localizations of gamma-ray bursts, as well as sophisticated spectral analysis software.
The Berkeley team is responsible for data analysis and instrument health software for the Fregate instrument. The UCB team is also a participant in the SXC software effort.
UCSC has been instrumental in providing scientific guidance for the HETE team during the design and construction phases of the spacecraft and ground control systems.
Dr. Graziella Pizzichini of TESRE in Bologna has provided scientific guidance for the HETE team. Dr. Pizzichini is also responsible for the Burst Alert Station at Malindi, Kenya, Africa.
Dr. Joao Braga of INPE is a scientific collaborator on the HETE team. Dr. Braga is responsible for the Burst Alert Station at Natal, Brazil.
Dr. Ravi Manchanda of TIFR is a scientific collaborator on the HETE team. Dr. Manchanda is responsible for the Burst Alert Station at Bangalore, India.
CNES constructed and tested the Global Positioning System used to provide accurate timing and orbital elements for HETE-2.
Sup'Aero constructed the primary ground station at Cayenne.
HETE Investigator Team:
| Principal Investigator: | George R. Ricker |
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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: