We work alongside partners across the world.
CELESTE is delivered by a coalition of federal agencies, commercial flight-hardware providers, and university observatories — each bringing decades of mission-critical experience.
Photograph · ESO
Team
The people
The people
behind CELESTE.
Principal investigators, instrument scientists, and mission engineers from across the United States — partnered with NASA centers, university research groups, and flight-heritage contractors.
Investigation Team
17 co-investigators.
17 co-investigators.
One mission.
Each team member brings recent, relevant experience in the specific systems and science cases that CELESTE depends on. Many have already collaborated on the prototype campaigns at Keck.
Partners
Built with our partners.
Federal agencies, commercial flight-hardware providers, and university observatories — each bringing decades of mission-critical experience.
Sponsor
NASA
Laser
General
Atomics
Atomics
Spacecraft
EnduroSat
Observatory
ESO’s
ELT
ELT
Comms
LCRD
Institutional Affiliations
- NASA JPL
- NASA Goddard
- Caltech Optical Obs.
- ESO’s ELT
- MIT Kavli Institute
- Princeton Astrophysics
- University of Michigan
- STScI
- IAS Princeton
- Stanford KIPAC
Industry & Federal
- General Atomics
- EnduroSat
- Blue Canyon Tech.
- Northrop Grumman
- L3Harris
- NASA SCaN · LCRD
- NSF NOIRLab