PARTNERS

CALIPSO is one of a series of NASA missions designed to examine critical issues in Earth system science. CALIPSO is a collaboration between NASA Langley Research Center and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales. Other members of the CALIPSO team are Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, Hampton University, and the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace. The primary roles and contributions of the team members are:

+ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) leads the mission and provides overall program management, systems engineering, payload mission operations, science data validation, and data processing and archival. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Goddard Space Flight Center provides program management for the CALIPSO mission.

+ Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
CNES provides the PROTEUS spacecraft and the Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR), and performs payload-to-spacecraft integration and spacecraft mission operations.

+ Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation (BATC)
BATC develops CALIOP and the wide-field camera and provides payload integration, launch vehicle support, and science data downlink.

+ Hampton University (HU)
HU, an historically black university located in Hampton, Virginia, manages the CALIPSO quid pro quo validation effort, the education and public outreach program, and leads the International Science Advisory Panel.

+ Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL)
IPSL leads French science studies, IIR algorithm development, and contributes to science data validation.