The High Frequency Instrument (HFI) and its Data Processing Center (DPC) is designed and built by a Consortium of scientists led by Jean-Loup Puget of the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay (France). The other main institutes involved in the HFI Consortium are:

 AstroParticule et Cosmologie, in Paris(F)
  California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena (USA)
  Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics , in Toronto (Canada)
  Centre d’Etudes Spatiales des Rayonnements , in Toulouse (F)
 Centre de Recherche sur les Très Basses Températures, in Grenoble (F)
  Collège de France, in Paris (F)
  Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, in Gif-sur-Yvette (F)
  Danish Space Research Institute, in Copenhagen (DK)
  Imperial College, in London (UK)
  Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, in Paris (F)
  Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, in Grenoble (F)
  Institute of Astronomy, in Cambridge (UK) - [Planck page ]
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena (USA)
  Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire, in Orsay (F)
  Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik, in Garching (D) - (Planck Page)
  Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory , in Cambridge (UK)
  National University of Ireland, in Maynooth (IR)
  Cardiff University, in Cardiff (UK)
  Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, in Chilton (UK)
  Space Science Dpt of ESA, in Noordwijk (NL)
  Université de Genève , in Geneva (CH)
 Universidad de Granada , in Granada (E).
  University La Sapienza , in Rome (I)
 Observatoire de Paris-LERMA, In Paris (F).

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