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 - ExoLife 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 - Free Space Optical Communications
    The Free Space Optical Communications Group is focused in develop and research of quantum optical communications equipments and implementations, between...
  • Project
    IACTEC Medical Technology: PatologIA
    Artificial intelligence can improve both the accuracy and the speed of medical diagnosis. This has been found to be true for colorectal cancer. This project, a...
  • 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...