From today until 5 December 2025, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is hosting the SO/PHI Science and Team Meetings, an international gathering focused on the scientific and technical advances of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) instrument aboard ESA's Solar Orbiter (SO) space mission. The development of PHI was co-led by the Spanish Space Solar Physics Consortium (S3PC), which also currently coordinates its scientific operation and exploitation. The IAC is part of this network. PHI is a high-precision solar observation instrument equipped with two telescopes—one

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 IAC

El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), a través de su departamento IACTEC-Espacio, celebra hoy la System Requirements Review (SRR) de la misión IACSAT-1, un hito clave que marca la finalización de la fase B1 del proyecto y consolida todos los requisitos técnicos, científicos y programáticos necesarios para avanzar hacia el diseño preliminar del satélite. IACSAT-1 es la primera misión liderada íntegramente por el IAC dedicada a la observación astronómica desde el espacio. Se trata de un proyecto desarrollado por IACTEC-Espacio, con un equipo científico dirigido por el Prof. Rafael