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Here you find a list of all the sponsors. If you want to sponsor too, please contact the team at parabolic[at]strw.leidenuniv.nl.



The team members are from the following universities:


Four of the student team members are Astronomy students at the University of Leiden. Here is the link to the University's homepage.
One student team member is an Astronomy student at the Rijksuniversiteit van Groningen. Here is the link to the University's homepage.
Prof Dr Jürgen Blum of the Institut für Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik at the German Technical University in Braunschweig will supervise the students.
Dr. Helen Fraser of the University of Strathclyde will supervise the students.



The following alliances and companies are sponsoring the team:


Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
ESA organizes the Parabolic Flight Campaigns and supports this project by choosing to schedule the experiment for the October 2006 Professional Campaign.
Kayser-Threde is a German company that will be involved in the development of the experiment.
Dutch Space will assist the students in the development of key setup components.
SRON is a research institute with over 30 years of experience in building world-class instrumentation for space missions such as XMM-Newton, Chandra, ENVISAT, ISO and Herschel. SRON is one of the main sponsors of this project.
The German Aerospace Center
De Nederlandse Onderzoeksschool Voor Astronomie.
Fijn Mechanische Dienst (Department of Fine Mechanics)
Leiden Institute of Physics
Pfeiffer Vacuum, Inc. provides the students with high performance vacuum products.
Air Liquide provides the students with Nitrogen gas and liquid.

Vacuum technology company