CfAI projects
Explore some of our projects below
CUBES
CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) is a high efficiency spectrograph that will be installed at a Cassegrain focus of the VLT.
LUCES
LUCES (Looking Up image slicers optimum Capabilities in the EUV for Space) is a project led by Durham University in collaboration with UCL. Funded by the UK Space Agency
TURBO
Turbulence monitoring equipment for the European Space Agency Hydron "fibre in the sky" project.
ALASCA
Advanced Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Satellite Communication Assessments
Extremely Large Telescope Instrumentation
Instrumentation for the Extremely Large Telescope
Lunar Thermal Mapper
The LMT is an instrument of the Lunar Trailblazer (NASA SIMPLEx small planetary science mission)
ALIGN
Free-space optical communications inter-satellite links
Solar Activity Magnetic Monitor Network (SAMNET)
Durham have designed, built and commissioned the full-disk SAMNET prototype that is installed at the Gyula Bay Zoltan Solar Observatory.
SuperBIT
Superpressure Balloon-borne Space Telescope
NIRspec Integral Field Unit
Instrumentation for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)