ASIM Partners

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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