The LARES and LARES 2 missions are carried out by a core Italian research team in collaboration with an international research partnership.

LARES/LARES 2 Team – Italy

Ignazio Ciufolini, School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome. Scientific lead and the inventor of the experiment to measure the drag effect of inertial systems.

Antonio Paolozzi, School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome. Responsible for the engineering project.

Claudio Paris, School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

Emiliano Ortore, School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

Giampiero Sindoni (until 2019), School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

International scientific collaboration

Erricos C. Pavlis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA (ret.)

John Ries, Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Richard Matzner, Theory Group, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Roger Penrose, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Vahe Gurzadyan, Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics, Alikhanian National Laboratory and Yerevan State University, Armenia.

Wei-Tou Ni, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics – WIPM, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Rolf König, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany.

Patrick Schreiner, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany.