ASIM Partners

The Technical Consortium
Design and development of the ASIM payload is done by an international consortium:


 * Terma – Space, Herlev, Denmark
 * Project management
 * Lead on development of the optical cameras (MMIA)
 * Software
 * Damec, Odense, Denmark
 * ASIM main computer
 * Mechanical structure for instruments
 * Ground communication center (in Odense)
 * National Space Institute -DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * Lead on development of the X- and gamma-ray sensor (MXGS)
 * Lead on payload mechanical design
 * Computer and software for the optical instruments (MMIA)
 * COM – DTU, Lyngby, Denmark
 * Image compression
 * FORCE, Technology, Brøndby, Denmark
 * Calibration of MXGS
 * Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spanien
 * MXGS mechanical structure
 * MXGS computer
 * Universitetet i Bergen, Norge
 * MXGS detector plane

The Scientific Team
The ASIM project is advised by a ”ASIM Facility Science Team” who include:


 * Torsten Neubert, National Space Institute - DTU (chairman)
 * Victor Reglero, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
 * Nikolai Østgaard, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
 * Elisabeth Blanc, Commisariat à l’Énergie Atomique, France

Further consultations involve the "ASIM International Science Team". To date, the science team includes 80 research groups from 29 countries. In Denmark the following are members:


 * National Space Institute - Danish Technical University
 * Danish Meteorological Institute
 * Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
 * Aalborg University