Organisation

The Space Agencies
The GERB Consortium
The Funding Agencies
The GERB International Science Team

The Space Agencies

The MSG (Meteosat Second Generation) satellite is provided as follows:

ESA

• Develops the MSG-1 prototype satellite according to EUMETSAT requirements
• Acts, on behalf of EUMETSAT, as procurement agent for MSG-2/3 satellites

EUMETSAT

• Contributes one third of the MSG-1 funding, and funds the procurement of MSG-2/3
• Finalises and maintains the End User Requirements for the MSG mission
• Procures all launchers and the services for post-launch early operations
• Develops the ground segment
• Ensures consistency between space system segments (space, ground, launcher services segments)
• Operates the system (over at least 12 years)

The GERB Consortium

GERB-1 has been produced  for MSG-1 by a European consortium led by the UK. The distribution of responsibilities is as follows:

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

• Management
• Systems Engineering,
• Instrument Optics Unit
• Instrument Electronics Unit
• Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT)
• Electrical Ground Support Equipment
• Post-Delivery Support
• Operations
• Data Processing
• Archiving and Distribution

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

• Principal Investigator
• Science
• Instrument calibration
• Operations
  

Hadley Centre

• Science

Leicester University

• Detector
• Signal conditioning electronics
• Front-end electronics

RMIB, Belgium

• Fluxes
• Near Real-Time data products

AMOS and OIP, Belgium

• The Telescope Assembly

Officine Galileo, Italy

• Descan Mechanism
• Quartz filter mechanism

The Funding Agencies

GERB-1 is funded by national funding agencies of the participating countries:

	Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - UK funding.
	Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (OSTC) - Belgian funding.
	Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) - Italian funding

The provision of further GERB instruments to fly on MSG-2 and MSG-3 will be funded by EUMETSAT.  

The GERB International Science Team (GIST)

The composition of the GIST is as follows:

P Allan R Allan R Amorati M Bates G Butcher M Caldwell K Dammann J Delderfield S Dewitte N Fox L Gonzalez J Russell J Harries P Ingman H Jacobowitz A Joukoff R Kandel D Llewellyn-Jones E Lopez-Baeza M Mlynczak E Oriol-Pibernat P Pili E Raschke R Rizzi E Sawyer J Schmetz C Serio A Slingo G L Smith RStuhlmann T Von der Haar

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Hadley Centre University of Bologna Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Leicester University Rutherford Appleton Laboratory GKSS-Forschungszentrum Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Institut Royal Meteorologique NPL Institut Royal Meteorologique Imperial College Imperial College ESA-ESTEC NOAA/NESDIS Institut Royal Meteorologique Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique Leicester University University of Valencia Nasa-Langley ESA-ESRIN EUMETSAT GKSS-Forschungszentrum University of Bologna Rutherford Appleton Laboratory EUMETSAT University of Basilicata Environmental Systems Science Centre (ESSC) NASA LARC GKSS-Forschungszentrum Colorado State University

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