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The French collaborators are:

Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales CNES
Maître d’œuvre du projet SVOM
Maitre d’œuvre du télescope ECLAIRs
Maitre d’œuvre du télescope MXT

Institut de Recherche sur les lois Fondamentales de l’Univers CEA/IRFU
Scientific responsibility for the SVOM mission
Scientific responsibility for the MXT instrument
Scientific responsibility for the French ground segment
Prime contractor for the development of the French Science Center (FSC)
Prime contractor for the development of the MXT instrument expertise centre
Participation in the development of the ECLAIRs instrument (trigger software)
Participation in the development of the MXT instrument (X-ray camera)
Participation in the development of the F-GFT robotic telescope (optical design)

Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie CNRS/IRAP
Scientific responsibility for the ECLAIRs instrument
Participation in the development of the ECLAIRs instrument (gamma camera)
Lead contractor for the development of the ECLAIRs expertise centre
Participation in the processing of scientific data from the ECLAIRs instrument
Lead contractor for the development of the F-GFT (French – Ground Follow-up Telescope) robotic telescope
Lead contractor for the development of the CAGIRE infrared camera of F-GFT

Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille CNRS/LAM
Scientific co-leadership of the SVOM mission
Scientific responsibility for the F-GFT robotic telescope
Scientific responsibility for the organisation of the ground follow-up (Follow-up)
Participation in the development of the F-GFT robotic telescope
Participation in the processing of the scientific data of the mission

AstroParticules et Cosmologie APC
Scientific responsibility for non-burst science
Scientific responsibility for multi-messenger activities
Participation in the development of the ECLAIRs instrument (coded mask)
Participation in the scientific data processing of the ECLAIRs instrument

Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris IAP
Scientific responsibility for the burst programme
Participation in the processing of the scientific data of the mission

Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg CNRS/OAS
Participation in the data processing of the MXT instrument

Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier CNRS/LUPM
Participation in the processing of scientific data from the ECLAIRs and GRM instruments

Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille CNRS/CPPM
Prime contractor for the development of the F-GFT robotic telescope expertise centre

Observatoire de Paris CNRS/GEPI
Participation in the processing of scientific data from the VT (Visible Telescope) instrument

Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie CNRS/IJCLab
Development of the interface between SVOM and the multi-messenger observatories
Participation in the development of the MXT instrument (scientific software)

Observatoire de Haute Provence CNRS/OHP
Participation in the development of the F-GFT robotic telescope

Leicester University
Definition of the MXT telescope’s “Lobster eye” optical system
Assembly and integration of the MXT telescope optical system

Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik MPE
Supply of the X-ray detector for the MXT camera
Calibration of the ECLAIRs and MXT instruments to the Panther X-ray source

Université Nationale Autonome du Mexique UNAM
Hosting the F-GFT telescope at the San Pedro Martyr site
Supply of the visible camera for F-GFT
Operation and maintenance of F-GFT

The Chinese actors are :

Shanghai Engineering Centre for Microsatellites SECM
SVOM satellite prime contractor

National Astronomical Observatory of China NAOC
Scientific responsibility for the SVOM mission
Scientific responsibility for the VT instrument
Scientific responsibility for the robotic telescope C-GFT (Chinese – Ground Follow-up Telescope)
Scientific responsibility for the Ground Wide Angle Camera (GWAC)
Scientific responsibility for the Chinese ground segment
Lead contractor for the development of the Chinese Science Center (CSC)

Institute of High Energy Physics IHEP
Scientific co-leadership of the SVOM mission
Scientific responsibility for the GRM (Gamma Ray Monitor) instrument
Project manager of the GRM instrument

National Space Science Center NSSC
Prime contractor for the SVOM mission control centre

Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics XIOPM
Contractor of the VT (Visible Telescope)

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