Partners
A mission of this size and scope can only be accomplished with a dedicated, talented team. These are the people and organizations who are making Arcus possible.
Management Leads
- Dr. Randall K. Smith, Principal Investigator (SAO)
- Dr. Laura Brenneman, Deputy Principal Investigator (SAO) [external link]
- Dr. Andrew Ptak, Project Scientist (NASA GSFC)
- Dr. Charles S. "Scott" Ritchey, Project Manager (NASA ARC)
- Dr. Stephen Walker, Project Systems Engineer (NASA ARC)
- Karolyn Ronzano, Scheduling Lead (NASA ARC)
- Damon Flansburg, Safety & Missions Assurance Lead (NASA ARC)
Instrument and Techonology Team Leads
- Dr. Marshall Bautz (MIT): Focal Plane
- Dr. Mark Schattenburg (MIT): X-ray Gratings
- Dr. Randall McEntaffer (Pennsylvania State University): Instrument Control Unit & Event Recognition Processor [external link]
- Dr. Kevin France (University of Colorado): Far-UV Spectrometer Lead [external link]
Institutions
- cosine
- Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
- NASA Ames Research Center
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Pennsylvania State University
- The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
- The Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte Astronomical Institute