The SCITECHSS Group is a research and development team of scientists and engineers based at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–CSIC (Granada-Spain). It devotes its efforts to develop instruments for the exploration of our Solar System with the aim of obtaining scientific data. The analysis and interpretation of these data allow us to advance in the understanding of the nature of the planets, their satellites, and the small bodies.
Latest news
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Our ISSI team comes to an end (updated 29.10).
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The International Space Science Institute (ISSI), in Bern (Switzerland), partially funds international teams to carry out a research project that need complementary scientific expertise. Teams are set up in competitive response to an Annual Call by ISSI. If selected, the research is carried out during a period 18 to 24 months during which the team…
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Testing how comets work.
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Authors, led by Nicholas Attree in the SCITECHSS group at IAA – CSIC, and at the Technische Universiät Braunschweig (Germany) have published a new paper on thermophysical modelling of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.Comets are among the most primordial objects in the Solar System and their study therefore gives direct insights into the era of planet formation. When…
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Scitechss Team Visits Huld in Finland.
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This past week (17/18 sept.), part of our team traveled to Finland to visit the facilities of Huld, the company responsible for developing the Application Software (ASW) that coordinates the ENVISS and OPIC instruments on ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission. The primary goal of this visit was the successful delivery of the Elegant BreadBoard 2 (EBB2)…