Projects: Mission/Instrument

PoET
October 2022

PoET

Detection and characterisation of other Earths, i.e., planets with the physical conditions to hold liquid water and thus potential life-sustaining environments, is a Read more
ESA/ESO Mission/Instrument
EST
August 2020

EST

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a project aimed at designing, constructing, and operating the largest solar telescope ever built in Europe. With Read more
Mission/Instrument
Ariel
March 2018

Ariel

Ariel (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) is the M4 mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision long-term plan, being expected to launch in 2029. During Read more
ESA/ESO Mission/Instrument
TESS
April 2018

TESS

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is a NASA all-sky survey mission launched in April 2018, designed to search for exoplanets orbiting bright stars Read more
Mission/Instrument
HIRES@ELT
December 2030

ANDES@ELT

ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph) is the planned high-resolution (R ~ 100,000) spectrograph for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) operating at visible Read more
ESA/ESO Mission/Instrument
SPIRou@CFHT
April 2018

SPIRou@CFHT

SPIRou (SPectropolarimètre InfraROUge) is a near-infrared spectropolarimeter and high-precision velocimeter for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). It is a near-infrared fiber-fed, double-pass cross-dispersed spectrograph, based Read more
Mission/Instrument