Lines of instrumentation: Research and Development

Research and Development

This line includes cross-cutting technological projects and studies that represent a substantial technical advance in precise aspects of utility, whether in future astronomical instruments or projects of non-astronomical technical applications.

  • Capability
    R&D&I project management
    The development of large and complex scientific instruments has led the IAC to specialize in project management techniques, a discipline to coordinate the human...
  • Document
    Reglamento de gestión IATAE
    Reglamento de gestión de la incubadora de Alta Tecnología en Astrofísica y Espacio (IATAE) de IACTEC. Establece el procedimiento para que los colaboradores...
    Reglamento de la IATAE
  • News
    SCALE 2026 convierte Tenerife en epicentro internacional de la cosmología y la física fundamental
    El proyecto UNDARK del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias y el Instituto de Física Teórica organizaron SCALE 2026 — Strings & Cosmology: All Lengths Explored...
  • Grant
    Space solar physics and space weather
    Five are the main objectives of this coordinated project, which are nevertheless synergistically related to one another. First, we must continue contributing to...
  • News
    Sucessful test of new technology which should help to discover “other Earths”
    A scientific team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, confirms the high...
  • News
    Takaaki Kajita: “The detection of gamma-rays with the CTA will be the key to discovering new sources of neutrino emission”
    The Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita is one of the leading world experts in neutrino physics. These particles have a very tiny mass, and they hardly interact...
  • Publication
    The 4 m New Robotic Telescope Project: An Updated Report
    The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) is an international collaboration to build and operate a 4m diameter fully robotic telescope. The telescope will take advantage...
  • Publication
    The 4-m New Robotic Telescope (NRT): status of the optomechanical systems
    The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) is currently under conceptual phase design, will be sited on the Observatory of Roque de los Muchachos (ORM) in La Palma (Canary...
  • News
    The Agreement for the use of the IACTEC building has been signed
    The Cabildo Insular of Tenerife, the Tenerife Science and Technology Park (INtech Tenerife), the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Instituto de Astrofísica...