GOZINTA / NITEOWL Functional Chart Principal Investigator ====================== | +-------------------+-----------------------+ | | Investigator Organization Industrial Partner (+ Subcontractors) ------------------------- ------------------------------------- | \ / | Science Team Development Team Engineering Team - objectives - optical - instrument manufacture - methodology - mechanical - instrument integration and test - data compression - thermal - payload design and manufacture - tomography - electrical - payload integration and test - ozone science - GPS - launch support - telemetry Notes on the above chart, excerpted from "Background Document for a Small Payloads Program", section 4.7.5 (URL http://www.dan.sp-agency.ca/www/spp_ao/SPP_BACKGROUND.HTM) Mission Definition and Concept Design: ====================================== Investigator Organization (IO) is Prime Contractor (PC), industry advisor(s) as subcontractors (SCs); Instrument Design, Manufacture, Integration and Test: ===================================================== IO responsible, functioning as PC; grad. students and IO technical staff from earlier stage (above) would be employed as team members, with industry support as required; expected that IO will require assistance of small to medium enterprises (SME) during instrument development; Payload Design, Manufacture, Integration and Test: ================================================== Industrial partner functioning as PC, with grad. students and IO technical staff from earlier stages working as integral but part-time (i.e., employed!) members of the industry team; IO required to be present for instrument integration and payload sequence testing; Mission Operations: =================== Payload build-up, test, waiting time, launch support included; provided by industrial partner (PC) or SC;