PARTICIPANTS SUPPORTED BY NATIONAL AGENCIES

RUSSIA

Participation	Telescope, Satellite, FGS, Optical Bench, Mission Integration, Launcher, Launch facilities, Ground Station, Science Mission Center
Funding Agency	Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)
Science contractor	Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences (INASAN)
Industry contractor	Lavochkin Association
PI	Prof. Boris Shustov
URL	http://wso.inasan.ru

SPAIN

Participation	Ground Segment, Field Camera Unit (ISSIS)
Funding Agency	Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo y Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Science contractor	Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Industry contractor	GMV for Ground Segment
PI	Prof. Ana I Gomez de Castro
URL	http://www.wso-uv.es

GERMANY

Participation	VUVES and UVES spectrographs
Funding Agency	Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Science contractor	Institut fur Astronomie und Astrophysik Tubingen (IAAT)
Industry contractor	Kayser-Threde
PI	Prof. Klaus Werner
URL	http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/groups/wso_uv/

UKRAINE

Participation	Coatings of the optical elements
Funding Agency	National Space Agency of Ukraine
Science contractor	Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO)
PI	Prof. Nikolay Steshenko ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
URL	http://www.nkau.gov.ua/nsau

WHO'S WHO

WSO-UV principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Boris Shustov, Institute of Astronomy, Russian National Academy of Science (INASAN)
WSO-UV chief engineer: Dr. Alexander Moisheev, Lavochkin Association, Russia

Science Instruments:

HIRDES principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner, University of Tuebingen, Germany

ISSIS principal investigator: Prof. Ana Inés Gómez de Castro, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

LSS principal investigator: Prof. Gang Zhao, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, China