Lines of instrumentation: Space instrumentation

Space instrumentation

Some scientific projects require observations outside the Earth's atmosphere, for which balloons or artificial satellites are necessary. These missions and experiments are carried out with scientific instruments developed by large international consortiums. Since its inception, the IAC has been participating in this type of projects, developing on-board instrumentation and instrumentation for ground segments.

  • Publication
    J-PLUS: The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey
    The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS ) is an ongoing 12-band photometric optical survey, observing thousands of square degrees of the...
  • News
    James Webb infrared data reveal unexpected diversity in hidden quasars
    An international team led by Cristina Ramos Almeida, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has used the James Webb Space Telescope...
  • News
    James Webb telescope studies organic molecules near black holes
    Research led by the University of Oxford and with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has succeeded in studying, for the first...
  • Project
    JEM-EUSO IRCAM
    The Infrared Camera (IRCAM) of the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO)
  • Publication
    Jpcam: a 1.2 Gpixel Camera for the J-Pas Survey
    JPCam is a 14-CCD mosaic camera, using the new e2v 9k-by-9k 10 μm-pixel 16-channel detectors, to be deployed on a dedicated 2.55 m wide-field telescope at the...
  • Gallery
    La misión CHEOPS, en la que participa el IAC, observa sus primeros exoplanetas
  • Technical facility
    Laboratory of Integrated Circuits (LABIC)
    As part of the IAC's strategic plan, since 2019, the Electronic Department of the Instrumentation Division has been carrying out many activities to obtain the...
  • News
    Lecture on the James Webb Space Telescope at the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos
    Macarena García Marín, astrophysicist who works for ESA and NASA on the Hubble’s successor, will explain the difficulties of deploying it into space.
  • Publication
    Lyman break and ultraviolet-selected galaxies at z ˜ 1 - I. Stellar populations from the ALHAMBRA survey
    We take advantage of the exceptional photometric coverage provided by the combination of GALEX data in the ultraviolet (UV) and the ALHAMBRA survey in the...