IASF-INAF  Contribution

Italy is involved in the AMIE experiment with co-investigators and hardware responsibilities. The co-investigators are Dr. Priscilla Cerroni and Dr. Maria Cristina De Sanctis, both from IASF-INAF, Rome, whose scientific interests lie in the fields of planetary sciences, physics of small Solar System bodies, impact cratering, and who have specific experience in the remote sensing of planetary surfaces from space missions. The Italian contribution to AMIE will include the DC/DC power converter and spacecraft interface board, and the development of ground support equipment software for scientific support and for the spacecraft's assembly, integration and verification activities, under the supervision of the Technical Manager Dr. Andrea Di Lellis, IASF-INAF, Rome.



The whole AMIE team:


        PI:             J.-L. Josset (SPACE-X, Space Exploration Institute, Neuchâtel, CH)

Co-Is:        P. Plancke (ESA-TOS)

                 Y. Langevin (Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, F)

                 P. Cerroni, M.-C. De Sanctis (IAS-CNR, I)

                 P. Pinet, S. Chevrel (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, F)

                 B. Hofmann, M. Josset (Natural History Museum of Bern, CH)

                 D. Koschny, M. Almeida (ESA-SSD)

                 K. Muinonen, J. Piironen (Helsinki Observatory, Finland)

                 A. Barucci (Observatoire Paris-Meudon, F)

                 S. Beauvivre (Micro-cameras & Space Exploration, Neuchâtel, CH)

                 P. Ehrenfreud (Leiden Observatory & Austrian Academy of Sciences, NL)

                 Y. Shkuratov (Kharkov Astronomical Observatory, Ukraine)

                 V. Shevchenko (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia)

Guest Technical Investigators: Z. Sodnik (Laserlink Experiment, ESA)

                                         S. Mancuso; F. Ankersen (Autonomy Navigation, ESA)

Scientific Advisors: S. Dunkin, D. Heather




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