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Engineers Assembling the Phoenix Spacecraft Photo credit: NASA/LMSS
Date: 2006-08-22
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| Engineers are assembling the Phoenix spacecraft at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Littleton, Colorado. In this image, the bottom of the spacecraft is easily seen, including the hexagonally shaped hazard avoidance radar and the spherical hydrazine fuel tanks. |
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The Phoenix Mission is led by Principal Investigator Peter H. Smith of The University of Arizona, supported by a science team of CO-Is, with project management at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and development partnership with Lockheed Martin Space Systems. International contributions are provided by the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus Denmark; the Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Additional information on Phoenix is online at here and here. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Additional information on NASA's Mars program is online at here.
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