The BELA Team
The BELA project is a joint project of the Physikalisches Institut of the University of Bern and the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) - Institut für Planetenforschung. Other partners are the Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia.
Many persons have helped develop BELA. The core hardware team currently comprises:
University of Bern |
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| Prof. Dr. Nicolas Thomas | Project Lead - Hardware Phase |
| Karsten Seiferlin | Overall Project Manager |
| Daniele Piazza | Overall System Engineer |
| Alain Peteut | Electrical Engineer |
| Tim Bandy | Integration and Test Support Engineer |
| Thierry De Roche | Test Engineer |
| Anthony Servonet | Test Engineer |
| Lisa Gambicorti | Optical Engineer |
| Urs Geissbühler | Software engineer |
| Kevin Kuske | Software engineer |
| Alireza Hosseiniarani | PhD Student |
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt |
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| Tilman Spohn | Project Lead - Operations Phase |
| Harald Michaelis | Transmitter Manager |
| Hauke Hussmann | Operations Supervisor |
| Thomas Behnke | Electrical System Engineer |
| Kay Lingenauber | Structural and Test Engineer |
| Rolf Schröter | Software Development |
| Kai Wickhusan | Software Development |
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung |
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| Uli Christensen | Project Lead - Laser |
| Reinald Kallenbach | Laser Manager |
| Henry Perplies | Laser PA/QA |
Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia |
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| Luisa Lara | Project Lead - Power Converter |
| Jose (Chema) Castro | Power Converter Manager |
| Miguel Herranz | Electrical Engineer |
The industrial teams involved include
RUAG Space Switzerland
Cassidian Optronik, Germany
CRISA, Spain
FISBA Optik, St. Gallen
Syderal, Gals
Montena, Rossen