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Current Projects

Projects UK ATC is currently working on, developing, designing or constructing.

Computer graphic showing what A-DOT will look like once completed.

A-DOT

A-DOT (Active Deployable Optical Telescope) is a small versatile space telescope currently in the research and design phase.
Aerial view of the 66 antennas that make up the ALMA observatory.

ALMA

ALMA (the Atacama Large Millimetre Array), is the largest and most sensitive telescope in the world at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths.
Computer graphic showing what AtLAST might look like once completed.

AtLAST

AtLAST (Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope) is a concept for a next generation 50-meter class single-dish observatory.
Close up of CUBES components.

CUBES

CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) is a near-ultraviolet instrument for ESO’s Very Large Telescope.
The Extremely Large Telescope during construction.

Extremely Large Telescope

The UK ATC is working on multiple instruments for the ELT: HARMONI, METIS, ANDES and MOSAIC.
The segmented, gold hexagonal mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope in the lab at NASA.

James Webb Space Telescope

The UK's main contribution to JWST is MIRI (the Mid InfraRed Instrument) one of four major scientific instruments onboard.
Artist's impression of what the LISA gravitational wave observatory will look like in space.

LISA

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be the first gravitational wave observatory in space.
One of the MARVEL telescopes.

MARVEL

MARVEL is a four-telescope observatory dedicated to the study of exoplanets.
The MOONS instrument in the lab at UK ATC, the sides are open and you can see the cameras inside.

MOONS

MOONS is a next generation spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.
SKAO radio telescope dishes in the desert.

SKAO

The SKA Observatory (SKAO) will be the world’s largest radio observatory.
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