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The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is demonstrating the quality and international relevance of the Canary Islands Observatories at the 245th session of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting being held this week in Maryland (USA). This meeting, led by the American astrophysics community, brings together the world's most important research centres in this field to share lines of work and proposals for the present and the future. The IAC delegation in Maryland is headed by the director of the centre, Valentín Martínez Pillet, who is part of the panel of speakers with aAdvertised on
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The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has successfully completed the integration of the scientific detector into the FRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive Optics) instrument, an integra-field camera and spectrograph designed to work with the adaptive optics system of the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan), the world's largest optical and infrared telescope, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma. The integration was carried out in the laboratories of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City by a team from the IACAdvertised on
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La presidenta del Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, ha anunciado esta mañana la aprobación de una subvención de 2,2 millones de euros al Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) para la fabricación de DRAGO-3, una cámara de última generación que se integrará en una constelación global de satélites en órbita baja. Esta red de satélites interconectados está concebida para ofrecer servicios globales o regionales para Tenerife. El importe exacto de la subvención asciende a 2.208.120 euros. El anuncio se ha realizado durante una visita a las instalaciones de IACTEC, la división tecnológica delAdvertised on