PACS Consortium

PACS has been designed and built by a consortium of institutes and university departments from across Europe under the leadership of Principal Investigator Albrecht Poglitsch located at Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany. Consortium members are: Austria: UVIE; Belgium: IMEC, KUL, CSL; France: CEA, OAMP; Germany: MPE, MPIA; Italy: IFSI, OAP/OAT, OAA/CAISMI, LENS, SISSA; Spain: IAC.

PACS Instrument Control Centre

The PACS Instrument Control Centre (ICC) was located at MPE, with partners in Austria (UVIE), Belgium (KUL), France (CEA), Germany (MPIA), Hungaria (Konkoly/KISAG), Italy (SISSA, IFSI), and Spain (IAC).
The ICCs were responsible for the calibration and successful operation of their instrument, starting from the instrument level. They also provided documentation, software, calibration files and procedures for the scientific processing of the raw data. Their final task was the consolidation of data, software, and documentation for the Herschel legacy archive.

PACS Funding Agencies

Germany	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR)
	Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)
	European Space Agency (ESA)
France	Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
	Commissariat à l’ Énergie Atomique (CEA)/LETI
Belgium	PRODEX (Programme de Développement d'Expériences Scientifiques) / ESA
Austria	Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG)
	Bundesministerium  für Wissenschaft und Forschung
Italy	Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
Spain

PACS Main Industrial Partners

Kayser-Threde	main contractor - structure design, optics, filter wheels,calibration sources cold harness, baffling, paint
Applied Space Techniques GmbH (ASTEQ)	spectrometer detectors
Carl Zeiss AG	chopper
Carlo Gavazzi	DPU electronics
CRISA	SPU electronics
CryoVac	test cryostat
Thomas Markl GmbH	structure manufacturing
OIP Sensor Systems	detector/mechanisms control
Zumtobel	grating