Cassini Team Members
The International Team
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Celebrating Cassini's arrival at Saturn, Dr. Charles Elachi, Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, high fives Cassini Program Manager Robert Mitchell, left. Dr. Ed Weiler, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science, looks on at right. Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Robert Brown. |
In the United States, the mission is managed for NASA's Office of Space Science by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology. At JPL, Robert T. Mitchell is the Cassini program manager. Dr. Linda J. Spilker is the Cassini project scientist and Dr. Scott. G. Edgington is the deputy project scientist.
At NASA Headquarters, Bill Knopf is Cassini program executive and Curt Niebur is Cassini program scientist.
The major U.S. contractor is Lockheed Martin, whose contributions include the launch vehicle and upper stage, spacecraft propulsion module and the radioisotope thermoelectric generators.
Development of the Huygens Titan probe was managed by the European Space Technology and Research Center. The center's prime contractor, Aerospatiale (now Alcatel) in Cannes, France, assembled the probe with equipment supplied by many European countries. Huygens' batteries and two scientific instruments came from the United States. At ESA, Dr. Nicolas Altobelli is the project scientist.
At ASI, Enrico Flamini is the project manager for Cassini's radio antenna and other contributions to the spacecraft.
The U.S. Department of Energy provided Cassini's radioisotope thermoelectric generators.
Listed below are the members of the Cassini and Huygens science teams.
Updated Jan. 29, 2012
Cassini
Team |
Science Investigators |
| Project Scientist | Linda J. Spilker |
| Deputy Project Scientist | Scott. G. Edgington |
| Project Science System Engineer | Nora K. Alonge |
| US Interdisciplinary Scientists | Jeffrey N. Cuzzi |
| Tamas I. Gombosi | |
| Jonathan Lunine | |
| Tobias C. Owen | |
| Laurence A. Soderblom | |
| Darrell Strobel | |
| International Interdisciplinary Scientists | Michel Blanc |
| Daniel Gautier | |
| Francois Raulin | |
| Participating Scientists | Alberto Adriani |
| Carrie Anderson | |
| Jason Barnes | |
| Gianrico Filacchione | |
| Matthew Hedman | |
| Brigette Hesman | |
| Carly Howett | |
| Ozgur Karatekin | |
| Panayotis Lavvas | |
| Carol Paty | |
| Paul Schenk | |
| Jason Soderblom | |
Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) |
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| Principal Investigator: | Dave Young (acting) |
| US Co-Investigators: | Scott J. Bolton |
| James L. Burch | |
| Frank Crary | |
| Raymond Goldstein | |
| Thomas W. Hill | |
| Robert E. Johnson | |
| David J. McComas | |
| Edward C. Sittler Jr. | |
| Michelle Thomsen | |
| International Co-Investigators: | Jean-Jacques Berthelier |
| Michel Blanc | |
| Andrew J. Coates | |
| Manuel Grande | |
| Knut R. Svenes | |
| Karoly Szego | |
Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) |
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| Principal Investigator: | Ralf Srama |
| US Co-Investigators: | Siegfried Auer |
| Thomas Economou | |
| Torrence V. Johnson | |
| Mihaly Horanyi | |
| International Co-Investigators: | Nicolas Altobelli |
| H. Fechtig | |
| M. Grande | |
| Eberhard Gruen | |
| Ove Havnes | |
| Sascha Kempf | Eduard Igenbergs |
| Elmar Jessberger | |
| H. Krüger | |
| Phillipe Lamy | |
| Franz Lura | |
| J. Anthony M. McDonnell | |
| Dietrich Möhlmann | |
| Gregor E. Morfill | |
| Ernst Pernicka | |
| Frank Postberg | |
| Juergen Schmidt | |
| Gerhard Schwehm | |
| F. Spahn | |
| Jiri Svestka | |
| Richard Wasch | |
Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) |
|
| Principal Investigator: | Mike Flasar |
| US Co-Investigators: | Mian M. Abbas |
| R. Achterberg | |
| Gordon L. Bjoraker | |
| John C. Brasunas | |
| Barney J. Conrath | |
| Peter J. Gierasch | |
| Donald E. Jennings | |
| Virgil G. Kunde (original PI) | |
| Glenn S. Orton | |
| Conor Nixon | |
| Tobias Owen | |
| John C. Pearl | |
| Paul N. Romani | |
| Mark Showalter | |
| A. A. Simon-Miller | |
| Linda Spilker | |
| John Spencer | |
| International Co-Investigators: | Peter A. R. Ade |
| M. Antonella Barucci | |
| Bruno Bezard | |
| Simon B. Calcutt | |
| Regis Denis Courtin | |
| Athena Coustenis | |
| Cecile Ferrari | |
| Thierry Fouchet | |
| Daniel Gautier | |
| P. Irwin | |
| Emmanuel Lellouch | |
| Andre Marten | |
| Renee Prange | |
| Francois Raulin | |
| Peter L. Read | |
| Fredrick Taylor | |
Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) |
|
| Principal Investigator: | Hunter Waite |
| US Co-Investigators: | Thomas E. Cravens |
| Janet G. Luhmann | |
| Ralph L. McNutt Jr. | |
| Hasso Niemann | |
| Roger V. Yelle | |
| International Co-Investigators: | Wing-Huen Ip |
Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) |
|
| Team Leader: | Carolyn Porco |
| US Team Members: | Joseph Burns |
| Anthony Del Genio | |
| H. Luke Dones | |
| Andrew Ingersoll | |
| Torrence Johnson | |
| Alfred McEwen | |
| Steven Squyres | |
| Peter Thomas | |
| Joseph Veverka | |
| Robert West | |
| International Team Members: | Andre Brahic |
| Carl Murray | |
| Gerhard Neukum | |
Magnetometer (MAG) |
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| Principal Investigator: | Michele Dougherty |
| US Co-Investigators: | Christopher T. Russell |
| Edward J. Smith | |
| David Southwood | |
| International Co-Investigators: | Andre Balogh |
| Stanley W.H. Cowley | |
| Geza Erdos | |
| Karl-Heinz W. Glassmeier | |
| Krishan Khurana | |
| Fritz M. Neubauer | |
Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI) |
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| Principal Investigator: | Stamatios Krimigis |
| US Co-Investigators: | Thomas P. Armstrong |
| James Carbary | |
| Douglas C. Hamilton | |
| Barry H. Mauk | |
| Donald G. Mitchell | |
| Edmond C. Roelof | |
| Chris Paranicas | |
| International Co-Investigators: | Denis Alcayde |
| Jean-Michel Bosqued | |
| Ioannis Jean Dandouras | |
| Wing-Huen Ip | |
| Norbert Krupp | |
| Andreas Lagg | |
| Stefano Livi | |
| Henri Reme | |
| Jean-Andre Sauvaud | |
Cassini Radar (RADAR) |
|
| Team Leader: | Charles Elachi |
| Acting Team Leader: | Steve Wall |
| US Team Members: | Michael Allison |
| Charles Elachi | |
| Michael A. Janssen | |
| Randolph L. Kirk | |
| Ralph D. Lorenz | |
| Jonathan Lunine | |
| Larry Soderblom | |
| Charles Wood | |
| Howard Zebker | |
| International Team Members: | Pierre J. Encrenaz |
| Giorgio Franceschetti | |
| Giovani Picardi | |
| Francesco Posa | |
| Roberto Seu | |
| Sergio Vetrella | |
Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) |
|
| Principal Investigator: | Don Gurnett |
| US Co-Investigators: | George B. Hospodarsky |
| William M. Farrell | |
| Michael L. Kaiser | |
| William S. Kurth | |
| Robert J. MacDowall | |
| J. Douglas Menietti | |
| Ann M. Persoon | |
| International Co-Investigators: | Hugo Alleyne |
| Rolf Bostrom | |
| Patrick Canu | |
| Baptiste Cecconi | |
| Nicole Cornilleau-Wehrlin | |
| Georg Fischer | |
| Christopher C. Harvey | |
| Patrick Galopeau | |
| Georg Gustafsson | |
| Laruent Lamy | |
| Alain Lecacheux | |
| Philippe Louarn | |
| Michiko Morooka | |
| Ronan Modolo | |
| Arne Pedersen | |
| Alain Roux | |
| Helmut O. Rucker | |
| Jan-Erik Wahlund | |
| Philippe Zarka | |
Radio Science (RSS) |
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| Team Leader | Richard G. French |
| US Team Members: | John W. Armstrong |
| F. Michael Flasar | |
| Arv Kliore | |
| Essam A. Marouf | |
| Andrew F. Nagy | |
| Nicole J. Rappaport | |
| International Team Members: | Roberto Ambrosini |
| Luciano Iess | |
| Paolo Tortora | |
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) |
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| Principal Investigator: | Larry Esposito |
| US Co-Investigators: | Joseph M. Ajello |
| Charles A. Barth | |
| Joshua E. Colwell | |
| Candice J. Hansen | |
| Amanda R. Hendrix | |
| William E. McClintock | |
| Wayne R. Pryor | |
| Donald E. Shemansky | |
| A. Ian F. Stewart | |
| Robert A. West | |
| Yuk L. Yung | |
| International Co-Investigators: | H. Uwe Keller |
| Ralf Reulke | |
Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) |
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| Team Leader: | Bob Brown |
| US Team Members: | Kevin H. Baines |
| Bonnie J. Buratti | |
| Roger Clark | |
| Dale P. Cruikshank | |
| Dennis L. Matson | |
| Thomas McCord | |
| Robert Nelson | |
| Philip D. Nicholson | |
| International Team Members: | Giancarlo Bellucci |
| Jean-Pierre Bibring | |
| Fabrizio Capaccioni | |
| Priscilla Cerroni | |
| Michael Combes | |
| Angioletta Coradini | |
| Pierre Drossart | |
| Vittorio Formisano | |
| Ralf Jaumann | |
| Yves Langevin | |
| Bruno Sicardy | |
| Christophe Sotin | |
Huygens
Team |
Science Investigators |
Aerosol Collector Pyrolyser (ACP) |
|
| Principal Investigator: | Guy Israel |
| International Co-Investigators: | Sushil Atreya |
| Tobias C. Owen | |
| Francois Raulin | |
| US Co-Investigators: | Hasso B. Niemann |
| Robert E. Samuelson | |
Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) |
|
| Principal Investigator: | Martin Tomasko |
| International Co-Investigators: | Bruno Bezard |
| Michel Combes | |
| Athena Coustenis | |
| H. Uwe Keller | |
| Emmanuel Lellouch | |
| Laurence A. Soderblom | |
| Nicolas Thomas | |
| Catherine de Bergh | |
| US Co-Investigator: | Robert West |
Doppler Wind Experiment (DWE) |
|
| Principal Investigator: | Michael K. Bird |
| International Co-Investigators: | Luciano Iess |
| US Co-Investigators: | Michael D. Allison |
| Sami W. Asmar | |
| David Atkinson | |
Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) |
|
| Principal Investigator: | Hasso B. Niemann |
| International Co-Investigators: | Francois Raulin |
| US Co-Investigators: | Sushil Atreya |
| Jonathan I. Lunine | |
| Tobias C. Owen | |
Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI) |
|
| Principal Investigator: | Marcello Fulchignoni |
| International Co-Investigators: | Athena Coustenis |
| Francesca Ferri | |
| Michel Hamelin | |
| Ari-Matti Harri | |
| Jose Lopez-Moreno | |
| Fritz M. Neubauer | |
| Jan Charles Zarnecki | |
| US Co-Investigator: | Michael D. Allison |
Surface Science Package (SSI) |
|
| Principal Investigator: | Jan Charles Zarnecki |
| International Co-Investigators: | Marcello Fulchignoni |
| Simon F. Green | |
| US Co-Investigator: | Ralph D. Lorenz |
Also see:
Meet the team... at the European Space Agency Cassini-Huygens site.
