The Spitzer Team
The primary organizations responsible for the design, development, and operation of Spitzer are:
-- Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena,
California is responsible for the overall management of the Spitzer Project, as
well as the design, development, and implementation of the Spitzer Flight
Operations System. JPL also provides system engineering and analysis support as
needed by the various team organizations.
-- Lockheed
Martin
Lockheed Martin Space System Company (LMSSC) in Sunnyvale,
California is responsible for the design and development of the spacecraft, as
well as Observatory Systems Engineering, Integration, and Testing (SEIT).
-- Ball
Aerospace
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation (BATC) in
Boulder, Colorado is responsible for the design and development of the
cryo-telescope assembly (CTA), as well as integration of the science instrument
cold assemblies into the cryostat. BATC is also the subcontractor for the IRS
and MIPS science instruments.
-- Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
(SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts is responsible for the science and instrument
requirements of the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) science instrument, under the
direction of Principal Investigator Dr. Giovanni Fazio.
-- NASA-Goddard Space Flight
Center
NASA-GSFC in Greenbelt, Maryland is responsible for the
design, fabrication, and testing of the IRAC hardware.
-- Cornell
University
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York is responsible for
the design and development of the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) science
instrument, under the direction of Principal Investigator Dr. James Houck.
-- University of
Arizona
The University of Arizona in Tucson is responsible for the
design and development of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS)
science instrument, under the direction of Principal Investigator Dr. George
Rieke.
-- Spitzer Science Center/Infrared Processing and Analysis
Center/Caltech
The Spitzer
Science Center (SSC) at the California Institute of Technology's Infrared
Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) in Pasadena, California is responsible for
the design, development, and implementation of the Spitzer Science Operations
System.
