| Masatoshi Yamauchi (Team Leader), IRF, Sweden | Coordination |
| Lynn Kistler, U New Hampshire, USA | Magnetosphere (AMPTE, Cluster) |
| Peter Wurz, U Bern, Switzerland | Moon, planetary missions, interplanetary dust |
| Iannis Dandouras, IRAP, France | Magnetosphere (Cluster) |
| John Plane (additional), U Leeds, UK | Mesospheric/ionospheric metal layer |
| Andrew Yau, U Calgary, Canada | Ionosphere and cold ions (Akebono, e-Pop) |
| Yoshufumi Saito, ISAS, Japan | Moon (Kaguya) |
| Daniel Kastinen (PhD student), IRF, Sweden | Meteorite and space debris |
| Steve Christon, Focused Analysis and Research, USA | Heavy ion measurement (Geotail and Cassini) |
| Ingrid Mann, Arctic UiT, Norway | Heavy ion and dust in lower-ionosphere/mesosphere |
| Tinna Gunnarsdottir (PhD student), Arctic UiT, Norway | Ionospheric source (both charged dust and heavy ions |
| Leonard Schulz, TU_Braunschweig, Germany | Space debris and ablation |
| Satonori Nozawa (additional), Nagoya U, Japan | Lidar observation of metal layer |
| Shigeto Watanabe, Hokkaido Information U, Japan | Sounding rocket Akebono and outflow model |