On February 18, 2021, (Paris Time), after “seven minutes of terror”, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter landed unscathed on Jezero crater, following a 490-million-kilometre journey. On July 30, 2020, the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity...
On July 30, 2020, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA successfully launched both Perseverance robotic rover and Ingenuity helicopter using an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Landing is planned for February 18, 2021, in...
End of October 2019, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) installed on the Mayall Telescope has trained its network of 5,000 optical fibre “eyes” to see its “first light”. DESI is currently undergoing a series of tests, before starting scientific...
Developed by Winlight System in collaboration with the French Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-CESTA) and the Aix-Marseille University, the patented technology Cleapart-100 is a particle deposition rate monitoring device with no influence on...
Winlight System designed the optical components of SuperCam, one of the seven science instruments to equip the rover of the U.S. “Mars 2020” mission. After seven months of integration in the facilities of the French space agency CNES, the performances of the...
Winlight System and AIP (Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Postdam) announce that they are currently collaborating in a joint-project of technology transfer in order to deploy Winlight System’ spectroscopy tools used on the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) –...
Bertin Technologies, subsidiary of CNIM group, has signed a definite purchase agreement of 100% of Winlight System group capital. Operational Winlight System management remains unchanged and our customers will benefit from the synergy between Bertin and Winlight...
All Winlight System companies have obtained the ISO9001:2015 certification. The scope of this approval is applicable to: • Winlight System Finance: Management, general services for the group• Winlight System: Complex optical systems design and manufacturing for...
The first image slicer developed by Winlight System for the Spirou instrument that will be installed at the CFHT in 2018 has been successfully tested at IRAP-OMP at cold temperature. This slicer has been built with twelve optically contacted mirrors of 5×0,110mm...
Caltech (University of California) has published last photos of the KCWI instrument ready to be shipped to telescope site (Keck at Hawai). KCWI image slicer is the first image slicer that integrates an adjustable resolution slicer stack. Winlight System has supplied...
