The Chandra Mission

• Overall Program Management
  • NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Prime Contractor
  • TRW (now NGST) - Spacecraft Construction and Integration
• Major Subcontractors
  • Raytheon Optical Systems - Mirror Grinding and Polishing
  • Optical Coating Laboratories, Inc. - Mirror Coating and Cleaning
  • Eastman Kodak Corporation - Mirror Assembly
  • Ball Aerospace and Technology Corp. - Science Instrument Module & Aspect System
• Science Instruments
  • Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) - Penn State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • High Resolution Camera (HRC) - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)
  • High Energy Transmission Grating - MIT
  • Low Energy Transmission Grating - Space Research Institute Netherlands and Max Planck Institute in Germany
• Telescope Scientist
  • Dr. Leon VanSpeybroeck, SAO
• Mission Support Team
  • SAO
• Chandra X-ray Center
  • SAO (with MIT & NGST personnel)
  • Science Support
  • Operations Control Center