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An ESA mission in partnership with NASA
EnVision is an ESA mission in partnership with NASA, and contributions from individual ESA member states for the provision of payload elements. NASA is contributing the VenSAR instrument and supplies DSN support. The other payload instruments are contributed by ESA member states, with ASI, DLR, BelSPO, and CNES leading the procurement of SRS, VenSpec-M, VenSpec-H and VenSpec-U instruments respectively.
EnVision ESA Study Scientist / Science Study Team co-chair
Dr. Anne Grete Straume, ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA-ESTEC), Directorate of Science, Solar System Section, Noordwijk, Netherlands
EnVision NASA Program Scientist / Science Study Team co-chair
Dr Mitchell D. Schulte, NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate, Planetary Science Division, Washington, DC, USA
EnVision Study Manager
Thomas Voirin, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA-ESTEC), Noordwijk, Netherlands
Head of ESA Science Coordination Office
Luigi Colangeli, Directorate of Science, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA-ESTEC), Noordwijk, Netherlands
EnVision Science Study Team
- Dr Lorenzo Bruzzone, Università di Trento, Italy
- Dr Paul Byrne, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Dr Lynn Carter, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, AZ, USA
- Dr Caroline Dumoulin, LPG, Université de Nantes, France
- Dr Gabriella Gilli, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain
- Dr Jörn Helbert, DLR Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany
- Dr Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA
- Dr Kandis Lea Jessup, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA
- Dr Walter Kiefer, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, USA
- Dr Emmanuel Marcq, LATMOS, IPSL, Guyancourt, France
- Dr Philippa Mason, Dpt. Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK
- Dr Alberto Moreira, DLR Microwaves and Radar Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
- Dr Ann Carine Vandaele, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA/IASB), Belgium
- Dr Thomas Widemann, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, France
EnVision Study Engineering, Performance and Operations Team
- Robert Buchwald, System study Manager
- Pierre-Élie Crouzet, Payload Study Manager
- Pedro Jurado
- Jayne Lefort, Science Operations Study Manager
- Marine Martin-Lagarde
- I. Sikaneta
- Arno Wielders, Deputy Payload Study Manager
EnVision NASA Project Team
- Dr. John C. Adams, Program Executive, NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate, Planetary Science Division, Washington, DC, USA
- Dr Ramon De Paula, NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate, Planetary Science Division, Washington, DC, USA
- Dr J.M. Moore, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA
- Dr. James E. Lee, Mission Manager, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA
- Dr. Thomas Wagner, NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate, Planetary Science Division, Washington, DC, USA
- Dr. Mitchell D. Schulte, NASA VenSAR Program Scientist, Science Mission Directorate, Planetary Science Division, Washington, DC, USA
EnVision Payload Instrument Team
- VenSAR – Dr. Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA
- VenSpec-M (VEM) – Dr. Jörn Helbert, DLR Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany
- VenSpec-H (VIVO) – Dr. Ann Carine Vandaele, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA/IASB), Belgium
- VenSpec-U (VeSUV) – Dr. Emmanuel Marcq, LATMOS, IPSL, France
- Subsurface Radar Sounder (SRS) – Dr. Lorenzo Bruzzone, Università di Trento, Italy
- Radio Science Experiment (RSE) – Dr. Caroline Dumoulin, LPG, Université de Nantes, France; Dr. Pascal Rosenblatt, LPG, Université de Nantes, France
