The aim of this project is to provide a Laser Launch Telescope for the Laser Guide Star Facility of the Adaptive Optics system of the GTC telescope. This will allow to increase drastically the capacity of GTC to make high spatial resolution science. The Laser Launch Telescope is in charge of expanding the laser beam and projecting it into the

PLATO 2.0 (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillation of stars) will the the 3rd medium class mission (M3) of the Cosmic Vision scientific programme of the European Space Agency. It was selected in February 2014, and just adopted in June 2017, with a launch date planned for 202 6 and six years of operations. PLATO 2.0 will place European researchers, and

This specific equipment will allow to carry out tests in cryogenics and high vacuum conditions of large electro-opto-mechanical systems. The first instrument that will benefit from this infrastructure will be HARMONI, the optical spectrograph / IR developed by ESO as first light instrument for the future Extremely Large European Telescope (ELT)

This aid is intended to complement the financing of action previously selected for financing by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to the project of a new correction system for the primary focus with field rotation for the William Herschel telescope.