The European Consortium will design, build, integrate, and test the instrument optical system (consisting of an imager and two spectrometer modules). It is led by Gillian Wright of the United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Center, along with Pierre-Olivier Lagage (France), Thomas Henning (Germany), Ewine van Dishoeck (NL), Goran Oloffson (Sweden), Tom Ray (Ireland), Alex Zehnder (Switzerland), Hans Ulrik Norgaard-Nielsen (Denmark), Luis Colina (Spain) and Christoffel Waelkens (Belgium). The consortium project manager is John Thatcher at EADS-Astrium, Ltd.
Participating organizations include:
Astron, Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy
CEA Service d'Astrophysique, Saclay, France
Centre Spatial de Liége, Belgium
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Danish Space Research Institute
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland
Institute d'Astrophysique Spatiale, France
Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aerospacial, Spain
Institute of Astronomy, Zurich, Switzerland
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), France
Max-Planck-Insitut für Astronomie (MPIA), Heidelberg, Germany
Observatory of Geneva, Switzerland
Paul Scherrer Institut, Swtizerland
Physikalishes Institut, Bern, Switzerland
Rutherland Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK
Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Ondeszoek (TNO-TPD), Netherlands
U.K. Astronomy Technology Centre (UK-ATC)
University College, London, UK
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of Cologne, Germany
University of Groningen, Netherlands
University of Leiden, Netherlands
University of Stockholm, Sweden