Organizational unit: IACTEC

Email
info.iactec [at] iac.es
Headquarter
Headquarters
Description
IACTEC is a space dedicated to technological and empresarial cooperation promoted by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), whose goal is to encourage collaboration in the public-private sector, boost the creation of quality employment, and generate technological products of high added value and high commercial potential, both nationally and internationally. Spain. Lines of research; Micro-satellites Programme Medical Technology Programme Large Telescope Programme
  • Capability
    Design and development of instruments and medical applications

    Image acquisition and treatment technologies applied in astrophysics are equally useful in medical applications, for which IACTec designs and constructs...

  • Capability
    Design and development of satellite payloads

    Taking advantage of the accumulated experience of optomechanical and optoelectronic instrumentation design in extreme environments and in space, the IAC through...

  • Project
    ELF - Exo Life Finder

    The detection of extrasolar life is one of the most important scientific discoveries of the next decades. The ExoLife Finder (ELF) design is a highly flexible...

  • Project
    IACTEC SPACE - Optical Space Communications

    The Free Space Optical Communications Group is focused in develop and research of quantum optical communications equipments and implementations, between...

  • Capability
    Implementation of large telescopic infrastructures

    Within the framework of IACTec as an integrating element of large telescope projects with the national and European science industry, the IAC designs and...

  • Project
    LIFEM: Laboratory for Integrated Photonics, Opto-Electronics and Opto-Mechanics of IACTEC

    The LIFEM laboratory (Laboratory for Integrated Photonics, Opto-Electronics and Opto-Mechanics Fotonics) will provide IACTEC new headquarters with the technical...

  • Project
    Planet Change: sustainability and Space

    Planet Change is an international educational project participated in by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and financed by the European Commission...