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.

  • Project
    IMaX-Sunrise
    Magnetograph for SUNRISE. IMaX (Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment) is one of the postfocal instruments for the SUNRISE experiment. After two succesful flights...
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • News
    MACARENA GARCÍA MARÍN: “Queremos que los científicos del IAC y la comunidad europea en general utilicen el James Webb”
    Durante su última visita al Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) hablamos con Macarena García Marín, una de las tres antiguas estudiantes de la...
  • Grant
    Manufacture and integration of QM, FM and FS models of SO/PHI.
  • Grant
    Manufacturing and integration of SO/PHI (the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager for Solar Orbiter)