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.

The UBE team members had some fun checking the Qualification Model system on the roof of the Exact Sciences building.

Many persons have helped develop BELA. The core hardware team currently comprises:

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 University of Bern
 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
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
 Uli Christensen  Project Lead - Laser
 Reinald Kallenbach  Laser Manager
 Henry Perplies  Laser PA/QA

Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia
 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