FRACTAL SLNE

2019

JAN

Course on opto-mechanics and cryogenics at UPV (Bilbao)

Manuel Maldonado (FRACTAL S.L.N.E) will impart in Bilbao classes on opto-mechanics and cryogenics in the Master en Ciencia y Tecnología Espacial in January 2019 (17, 18 and 25)

2018

NOV

Training course Optical Fibres in Astronomy

Next November 6th, 7th and 8th 2018, FRACTAL organizes in Madrid the course Optical Fibres in Astronomy , imparted by Dr. Ismael Martínez-Delgado in Hotel Preciados (Madrid). This edition of the course will be imparted in Spanish. You can find the inscription form, price and other information here.

2018

JUL

ESO Technology transferred to FRACTAL

ESO has signed an agreement to license its anti-vibration mount for Closed Cycle Cooler Head technology to our company FRACTAL SLNE.

2018

JUL

XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomy Society (SEA)

FRACTAL participates the XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomy Society (SEA) that will be in Salamanca on 16 to 20 July 2018.

2018

APR

Course on Project Management at UPV

María Luisa García Vargas (FRACTAL S.L.N.E) will impart in Bilbao a course on Project Management in the Master en Ciencia y Tecnología Espacial in April 2018.

2018

FEB

Big Science Business Forum 2018

FRACTAL shall attend the event "Big Science Business Forum 2018" (BSBF2018) that will be held in Copenhagen on 26 to 28 February.

2018

JAN

Course on TwinCAT 3

FRACTAL qualifies in Beckhoff TwinCAT 3.
Beckhoff created a global standard for automation with the launch of PC-based control technology. On the software side, the TwinCAT (The Windows Control and Automation Technology) automation suite forms the core of the control system. The TwinCAT software system turns almost any PC-based system into a real-time control with multiple PLC, NC, CNC and/or robotics runtime systems.

2018

JAN

Course on Opto-mechanics and cryogenics

Manuel Maldonado Medina (FRACTAL S.L.N.E) will impart in Bilbao a course on opto-mechanics and cryogenics in the Master en Ciencia y Tecnología Espacial in January 2018

2018

JAN

Course on Optical systems design and Adaptive Optics at UPV

Nicholas Devaney (collaborator of FRACTAL S.L.N.E) will impart in Bilbao a course on Optical systems design and adaptive optics in the Master en Ciencia y Tecnología Espacial in January 2018.

2017

NOV

Telescopio San Pedro Mártir (TSPM). The Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Enclosure and Services

Telescopio San Pedro Mártir (TSPM). The Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Enclosure and Services took place 13 - 15 November 2017 in México DF. The Review Panel was chaired by Matt Johns (The University of Arizona), and participated by Heather Marshall (DKIST), Povilas Palunas (Magellan Observatories) and Bruce Bigelow(GMTO Corporation). TSPM is being designed and built by UNAM, INAOE, UA/SO and SAO. Project Management and System Engineering services have been contracted to FRACTAL S.L.N.E.

2017

NOV

Telescopio San Pedro Mártir (TSPM). The Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Telescope structure and mechanisms

Telescopio San Pedro Mártir (TSPM). The Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Telescope structure and mechanisms took place 8 - 10 November 2017 in México DF. The Review Panel was chaired by Bruce Bigelow(GMTO Corporation) and participated by Paul Jeffers (DKIST/NOAO), Steve Levine DCT, Stéphane Guisard (ESO) and Rebecca Bernstein (GMTO Corporation). TSPM is being designed and built by UNAM, INAOE, UA/SO and SAO. Project Management and System Engineering services have been contracted to FRACTAL S.L.N.E.

2017

NOV

Telescopio San Pedro Mártir (TSPM). Optics Progress Review

Telescopio San Pedro Mártir (TSPM). The Optics Progress Review took place 6 - 8 November 2017 in México DF. The Review Panel was chaired by Stéphane Guisard (ESO) and participated by Rebecca Bernstein (GMTO Corporation), Steve Levine DCT, Paul Jeffers (DKIST/NOAO) and Bruce Bigelow(GMTO Corporation). TSPMis a 6.5m telescope for the San Pedro Mártir Observatory (Baja California). TSPM is being designed and built by UNAM, INAOE, UA/SO and SAO. Project Management and System Engineering services have been contracted to FRACTAL S.L.N.E.

2017

OCT

Telescopio San Pedro Mártir (TSPM). Enclosure and Facilities preliminary design review

Telescopio San Pedro Mártir (TSPM). The project held an Enclosure and Facilities preliminary design review before an external panel of reviewers on 11 - 13 October 2016. The TSPM objective is to design, construct and operate a 6.5 m optical/infrared telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Mexico.

2017

MAY

Course on Project Management at UPV

María Luisa García Vargas (FRACTAL S.L.N.E) has imparted in Bilbao a course on Project Management in the Master en Ciencia y Tecnología Espacial in May 2017

2017

APR

Course on Optical systems design and Adaptive Optics at UPV

Nicholas Devaney (collaborator of FRACTAL S.L.N.E) has imparted in Bilbao a course on Optical systems design and adaptive optics in the Master en Ciencia y Tecnología Espacial in April 2017.

2017

APR

Course on Opto-mechanics and cryogenics

Manuel Maldonado Medina (FRACTAL S.L.N.E) has imparted in Bilbao a course on opto-mechanics and cryogenics in the Master en Ciencia y Tecnología Espacial in April 2017.

2016

DIC

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2017

We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, in which we work together on challenging projects for Science.

From all of us at FRACTAL S.L.N.E.

2016

JUL

XII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomy Society (SEA)

FRACTAL participates the XII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomy Society (SEA) that will be in Bilbao.

2016

JUL

Course on work at height

FRACTAL qualifies in work at height in order to perform the installation of MEGARA in the GTC.
With this course, the worker is given technical knowledge that allows him to face any job at height in a safe and effective way, so that not only increases security, both personally and collectively.

2016

APR

2016

APR

2016

APR

2015

DIC

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, in which we work together on challenging projects for Science.

From all of us at FRACTAL S.L.N.E.

Our Christmas card here.

2015

AGO

Today FRACTAL is 10 years old!

We want to thank all our customers and partners their trust on our work and go on developing Engineering for Science.

2015

JUN

ESO Signs Technology Transfer Licence Agreement with FRACTAL S.L.N.E. for Cooling System

ESO has signed an agreement to license its cooling system technology to our company FRACTAL SLNE. Continuous flow cooling systems were first developed at ESO for the cooling of instruments and detectors for the Very Large Telescope (VLT). Continuous flow systems are more compact than traditional systems that use a bath of very cold liquid, but share the advantage of being vibration free. The continuous flow system allows the temperature within an instrument to be changed from room temperature to -193 degrees Celsius and is not affected by the loss of electrical power. As a result, the instrument can be kept very close to its operating temperature and the vacuum within the instrument can be retained. This agreement includes the licensing of the well-proven cryostats (which regulate the low temperatures) that are used to cool individual detectors from room temperature down to -193 degrees Celsius and the more sophisticated version that is used for the cooling of the ultra-stable detectors used in more sensitive measurements. More information can be found on ESO press release The image by ESO shows the MUSE instrument on the VLT: equipped with 24 continuous flow cooling systems (Credit: ESO)

2015

APR

FRACTAL participates in OCTOCAM Feasibility Study for Gemini

FRACTAL participates under contract with IAA in the feasibility study of OCTOCAM for Gemini telescope. The OCTOCAM study is being led by Antonio de Ugarte Postigo and managed by Pete Roming and Christina Thöne. The project is being coordinated from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), with main collaborators at the Southwest Research Institute, Fractal SLNE, and George Washington University. The complete information is on Gemini webpage

2015

APR

2015

APR

2015

MAR

ESA contract with NUIG group in Galway

The NUIG research group in Galway lead by Dr. Nicholas Devaney has won a contract from the European Space Agency to develop new ways to correct visual errors in orbiting space telescopes. Congratulations Nicholas! The complete information can be found here

2015

MAR

2015

MAR

Master of Space Science and Technology 2014 / 2015

FRACTAL participates in the Master of Space Science and Technology of Universidad del País Vasco (Bilbao) by imparting the courses on Project Management and Optics design and Adaptive Optics. The courses will be imparted in Bilbao (Spain) along March and April 2015.

2015

MAR

Participation in the international conference "Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys and Wide Fields"

Some members of FRACTAL participate in the international conference "Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys and Wide Fields", to be held in Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands from 2nd to 6th March 2015". The conference is organized by Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, one of FRACTAL's customers. Click here to access conference information.

2015

FEB

Preparation for MEGARA Acceptance

FRACTAL participates in the meeting review "Preparation for MEGARA Acceptance", organized by the group in the Astrophysics department of the Physics faculty at UCM. The meeting will be held in UCM from 25th to 27th February 2015". FRACTAL is working for UCM and for IAA in the MEGARA development in the areas of Management, System Engineering, Spectrograph, Optical Fibers, Detector characterization and Software. MEGARA will be the next IFU and MOS spectrograph for the GTC 10-m telescope

2014

DIC

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Dear friends and colleagues: We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2015 in which your dreams and projects come true

2013

JAN

Sliced Pupil Grating published in SPIE NEwsroom

SPIE NEwsroom has published our paper on "Sliced Pupil Grating: a compact solution for increased spectral resolution", resulting from a collaborative work between FRACTAL and UCM to design and develop a functional SPG prototype. Our results show how these devices increase the spectral resolution up to a factor of x4, without changing the overall instrument geometry, being an innovative solution for combining several spectral resolution regimes in compact spectrographs.
Reference: 14 January 2013, SPIE Newsroom.
DOI: 10.1117/2.1201301.004565.
Click here to read this paper on-line.

2012

DIC

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2013

FRACTAL team wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year 2013

2012

NOV

FRACTAL in SPIE Optical Systems Design 2012

FRACTAL participates in SPIE Optical Systems Design 2012 , an important conference that covers optical systems and related technology advancements. This event will take place in Barcelona next 26 to 29 of November, 2012. FRACTAL presents one oral contribution and participates in the exhibition.

2012

JUN

SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2012

FRACTAL participates in SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2012 , an important conference that covers telescopes and systems and technology advancements. This event will take place in Amsterdam next 1 to 6 of July, 2012. FRACTAL presents several contributions.

2012

JUN

SKA: A Green Gaze at the Sky

IAA leads VIA-SKA project. VIA-SKA promotes the Spanish participation in SKA . Dr. Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro, VIA-SKA Principal Investigator explains it on the article A Green Gaze at the Sky .

2012

JUN

SEA Scientific Meeting 2012

FRACTAL participates and is official sponsor of the conference Highlights of Astronomy and Astrophysics, X Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, SEA. The conference will take place in Valencia next 9 to 13 of July, 2012.

2012

JUN

FRACTAL at IScAI 2012: Management

FRACTAL has imparted the Management course in the IScAI,International School for Advanced Instrumentation, held at IAC (Tenerife), 29May- 2June 2012.

2012

MAY

FRACTAL at IScAI 2012: Mechanics

FRACTAL has imparted the Mechanics course in the IScAI,International School for Advanced Instrumentation, held at IAC (Tenerife), 21-25 of May 2012.

2012

MAY

Course on Scientific Imaging in the visible and near-infrared

FRACTAL organizes a course on Scientific Imaging in the visible and near-infrared, to be held on 20, 21 and 22 June 2012 in Madrid. The course has a duration of 18 hours. Detailed information can be found here. The brochure can also be downloaded.

2012

MAR

Master of Space Science and Technology 2012

FRACTAL participates in the Master of Space Science and Technology of Universidad del País Vasco (Bilbao) by imparting the courses on Project Management and Optics design and Adaptive Optics. The courses will be imparted in Bilbao (Spain) along March and April 2012.

2011

FEB

FRACTAL in the MITTechnology Review for Science Industry

FRACTAL was selected to participate in the MIT review paper of "New Technologies in Spain" within the chapter of Science Industry. More information here . You can download the electronic version here.

2010

DIC

Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year 2011. With our best wishes FRACTAL Team

2009

DIC

FRACTAL participates as a SECPhO associated member in its first Optics and Photonics Fair, in Terrasa.

FRACTAL participates in the first exhibition-meeting of SECPhO cluster in Optics and Photonics.

This event took place at Parque Audiovisual de Cataluña (Terrassa), with the attendance of many companies, universities and R+D Centers. During the internal SECPhO meeting, the cluster's present and future was discussed. One of the main goals of the cluster is to increase the international visibility by promoting the cluster's presence in different European meetings in Optics and Photonics. FRACTAL is member of SECPhO since August 2009 and participated in this exhibition with a stand.

2009

NOV

FRACTAL in collaboration with the UCM Astrophysics Group has built a high resolution diffraction grating.

FRACTAL, in collaboration with the Astrophysics Department of the University Complutense of Madrid, has designed and is already building a prototype for a high resolution grating base on segmenting the pupil and the recovering the image on detector. This novel method will allow us to get high spectral resolution where this was not possible before. In particular this method can be applied to Littrow-instruments to increase the resolution, to Space instruments, due to the compactness of these elements and to existing and new instruments in large Ground-based telescopes. This project has been partially funded by the Aerospatial Plan of the Madrid Local Government (Exp: 22/2009 AEROESPACIAL 2009, Reference: 04-AEC0913-000022/2009).

2009

OCT

FRACTAL participates in the Máster Universitario en Ciencia yTecnología Espacial of the Universidad del País Vasco.

FRACTAL participates in the first edition of the Spatial Science and Technology Master, Máster Universitario de Ciencia y Tecnología, of the University of País Vasco, by imparting the courses on Optical Systems Design and Adaptive Optics and Management. The classes will be held in Bilbao during March and April 2010. All the information about this Master can be found here .

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