Venus Express Science Operations Centre (VSOC)

The VSOC is primarily located at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), in Villanueva de la Cañada, a suburb of Madrid, Spain. Some members are based at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The members of the team are:

• F. Jansen (Mission Manager, at ESTEC)
• H. Svedhem (Project Scientist, at ESTEC)
• D. Titov (Science Support, at MPS Lindau)
• R. Hoofs (Science Ground Segment Manager, at ESAC)
• M. Pérez Ayúcar (Science Operations Coordinator, at ESAC)
• D. Merritt (Science Operations Engineer, at ESAC)
• F. Nespoli (Science Operations Engineer), at ESAC
• D. Heather (Archiving Manager, at ESTEC)
• J.L. Vazquez (Auxiliary Data Support, at ESAC)
• M. Barthelemy (Data Validation Engineer, at ESAC)
• M. Almeida (VMC Liaison Scientist), at ESAC
• S. Remus (VeRA Liaison Scientist, at ESAC)
• B. Geiger (Science Operations Software Engineer, at ESAC)

Principal Investigators (PI)

• ASPERA-4 PI: S. Barabash
• Mag PI: T. Zhang
• PFS PI: V. Formisano
• Spicav/SOIR PI: J.L. Bertaux
• VeRA PI: B. Haeusler
• VIRTIS PI: G. Piccioni, P. Drossart
• VMC PI: W. Markiewicz

ESA Ground Segment Team at the MOC

The Ground Segment Team, or Mission Operations Centre (MOC), is located at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. In the list below, FCT is the Flight Control Team, FD is the Flight Dynamics Team. The composition of the MOC team is:

• Octavio Camino (FCT, Spacecraft Operations Manager [SOM])
• Ignacio Tanco (FCT, Systems Engineer and Deputy SOM)
• Bruno Sousa (FCT, Payload, Power, Thermal and Mission Planning Engineer)
• Mark Sweeney (FCT, Payload, Thermal, Power, and Scheduling Engineer)
• Rosario Pérez (FCT, Payload, TT&C and Radio Science Engineer)
• Jörg Fischer (FCT, Payload, AOCS, simulator and Mission Planning Engineer)
• Norbert Keil (FCT, Payload, System and On-board Software and Data Handling Engineer)
• Norbert Schmitt (Analyst, Spacecraft Control and Ground segment engineer)
• Michael Mueller (FD Manager - shared)
• Frank Budnik (FD team - shared)
• Trevor Morley (FD Manager - shared)