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  • Installation of the LST-4 camera at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory.
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    The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory takes a further step into the future with the installation of the LST-4 camera
    The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), located on La Palma, has reached another important milestone with the installation of the camera of the LST-4, one of the four Large-Sized Telescopes (LST), which will be part of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), currently under construction. The installation of the camera represents the completion of the telescope assembly and marks its transition to the commissioning phase. After a thorough performance evaluation at the IACTEC building, the IAC's technological and business
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  • La ministra Diana Morant junto al director del CDTI, José Moisés Martín; el director del IAC, Valentín Martínez; la subdirectora del IAC, Eva Villaver y la Secretaria General de Innovación, Teresa Riesgo.
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    La ministra de Ciencia anuncia en el Consejo Rector del IAC que el Gobierno de España ofrece hasta 400 millones de euros para construir en La Palma el TMT
    La ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Diana Morant, ha anunciado que el Gobierno de España está dispuesto a ofrecer hasta 400 millones de euros, a través del Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación (CDTI), para atraer a la isla de La Palma, en Canarias, el Telescopio de Treinta Metros (TMT, por sus siglas en inglés). La ministra lo ha anunciado durante la reunión del Consejo Rector del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), que ha presidido hoy en La Palma, donde ha informado que esta tarde ha remitido una propuesta formal a la Fundación que gestiona el TMT
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  • Presentation of the coupon dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the IAC
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    The ONCE lottery ticket celebrates the 40th anniversary of the IAC
    The ONCE is dedicating its lottery ticket for Sunday, June 29, to the 40th anniversary of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). Five and a half million coupons will spread the word about this anniversary throughout Spain, featuring an image of the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan), the world's largest optical-infrared telescope, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma). Since it began scientific operations in 2009, the GTC has become a symbol of the scientific and technical consolidation of the IAC and the Canary Islands Observatories (OCAN), and its
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