Airbus Defence and Space has awarded a contract to Winlight System for some critical components and optical sub-assemblies for MICROCARB mission. It is a CNES mission decided at the COP21 conference. Visit MICROCARB site (CNES) >>
Following the acceptance of the critical decision 2 by the DOE (department of Energy), DESI project (Dark Energy Instrument) has given the go-on for the construction of 9 spectrographs to complete the instrument. This comes after the realization of first spectrograph...
Winlight System was in Lyon on September 6, 2013, to attend the celebration of the completion of MUSE instrument. The instrument will be dismounted and shipped to Chili. It will be installed on Atacama desert, on one of the four VLT 8.2 meter telescope of ESO. The...
To face the workload and prepare the company for future big projetc, Winlight System has started the construction of a new factory close to the actual one in Pertuis. The new building will increase the assembly floor as well as the polishing workshop. Production...
Curiosity just lands this morning on Mars. The robot was lauched last November by NASA. Winlight System has supplied some of the optical elements , in particular the two mirrors of the CHEMCAM telescope mission which is embedded on Curiosity ! Visit CHEMCAM Website...
The R&D Startiger program has been validated by ESA (European Space Agency) last week. Winlight System, member of the Consortium, has supplied the TMA (Three-Mirror Anastigmatism telescope) for the project in a very short time ! Learn more about the R&D...
The French government has just published the list of the 99 projects which will be financed within the 6th call for projects of the FUI. Projects Diamant 2 (Pôle Pégase) and Optim (Pôle SCS) in which Winlight System is involved have both been accepted.
The shareholders of the company have decided to increase their participation in the development of Winlight System’s activity by increasing the capital of the company from 265 600 euros to 514 600 euros.
