ESA Spacecraft Operations Managers, October 2006

The Spacecraft Operations Manager, or SOM, is responsible for operating the spacecraft and managing the Flight Control Team. A single SOM is assigned to each mission, which can last anywhere from a year to over a decade.

Left to right: Paolo Ferri, Christopher Watson, Michael Schmidt, Frank Diekmann, Ian Harrison, Juan Pineiro, Nic Mardle, Elsa Montagnon, Francois Bosquillon de Frescheville, Micha Schmidt, Juergen Volpp, Octavio Camino, Andrea Accomazzo, Andreas Rudolph, David Milligan

Absent: Michel Denis, Dietmar Heger, Piere Bargellini, Alan Moorhouse, Claudio Sollazzo