Mission Team
The Cassini-Huygens venture is a masterpiece of collaboration, uniting the space agencies, NASA, ESA, and ASI, and scientists and engineers on both sides of the Atlantic.
To the Orbiter, built in the USA, ASI (the Italian Space Agency) contributed telecommunications equipment.
A Europe-wide industrial team constructed the Huygens probe.
European scientists lead two experiments on NASA's Orbiter, and participate in all of them. Conversely, US-led teams supplied two instrument packages on ESA's Huygens, Probe and American scientists contributed to three others.
| The Cassini-Huygens Mission Team | |
| Gerhard Schwehm | ESA Mission Manager |
| Nicolas Altobelli | ESA Project Scientist |
| Earl Maize | NASA Programme Manager |
| Linda J. Spilker | NASA Project Scientist |
| Amanda R. Hendrix | NASA Deputy Project Scientist |
| Nora K. Alonge | NASA Project Science System Engineer |
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Jeffrey N. Cuzzi Tamas I. Gombosi Jonathan Lunine Tobias C. Owen Laurence A. Soderblom Darrell Strobel |
US Interdisciplinary Scientists |
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Michel Blanc Daniel Gautier Francois Raulin |
International Interdisciplinary Scientists |
| Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) | |
| Principal Investigator | Dave Young |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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 |
Last Update: 1 September 2019