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
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