ANDES SAR Acceptance
The System Architecture Review (SAR) of ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph) was held at ESO headquarters in Garching on October 17-18, 2023.
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News
Latest press releases
New technology from IA closer to go into orbit
European Space Agency (ESA) approved the first prototype of a precision system for the largest X-ray telescope, developed by a team led by the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences... read more ❯
Agreement for the construction of telescope made in Portugal was signed
The agreement to install the PoET solar telescope in ESO's Paranal Observatory was recently signed by ESO's director general and the board of Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto,... read more ❯
Activities
Upcoming activities
There are no new activities planned yet.Past activities
ANDES SE meeting
IA will host a closed meeting of the ANDES System engineers and crucial people towards the documents preparation of the PDR.
The meeting will be held in Lisbon, at the Faculty of Sciences between July 9 and 11, 2024.
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ANDES Front-End meeting
The Front-End team of ANDES, including the SCAO and IFU subsystems will meet in Porto on December 11 and 12, 2023. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the mass, volume, and different functions of the front-end.
The different architects of ANDES are also expected to participate.
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Projects
SHABAR
SHABAR [Other] (SHAdow BAnd Range) is a solar seeing measurement instrument that we are implementing in the context of the Paranal solar Espresso
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BlueMUSE
BlueMUSE [ESO] is a blue-optimized, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph that is planned for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) with first
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