The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

Swift Mission Participants: Institutional Responsibilities

Responsibilities Lead Institution   (key to acronymns)
Principal Investigator, Mission Management GSFC
Spacecraft Spectrum Astro
BAT Instrument
     Management, Hardware
     On-board GRB Software		  
GSFC
LANL
XTR Instrument
     Management, Electronics, Flight Software
     Detector System
     Mirrors
     Calibration		  
PSU
UL
OAB
MPE
UVOT Instrument
     Management, Electronics
     Instrument Development		  
PSU
MSSL
Mission Integration and Test Spectrum Astro/GSFC
Ground System Management GSFC
Ground Station ASI
Mission Operations Center PSU
Science Center GSFC
Data Centers GSFC, ASI/OAB, LU
GRB Follow-up UCB
Education/Public Outreach SSU


ASI = Italian Space Agency
GSFC = Goddard Space Flight Center
LANL = Los Alamos National Laboratory
MPE = Max Planck Institude fŸr Extraterrestrische Physik
MSSL = Mullard Space Science Laboratory
OAB = Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
PSU = Penn State University
SSU = Sonoma State University
UCB = University of California, Berkeley
UL = University of Leicester