![]() | PACS - A Photodetector Array Camera & Spectrometer for Herschel | ![]() |
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PACS is one of the three science instruments for ESA's Herschel Space Observatory (HSO), which was launched on 14 May 2009 and making observations until April 2013.
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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.
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