Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale

The design office / workshop is equipped with a new prototyping workshop !

In order to be able to quickly produce prototypes and improve our responsiveness during the development phases, the IAS is acquiring two new facilities: a 3D printer and a 5-axis digital milling machine. This equipment allows our laboratory to slowly enter the era of digital manufacturing while developing new skills.

IAS happily welcomes France’s commitment to the construction and operation of the largest radio astronomy instrument ever built: the Square Kilometre Array.

Astrophysicists consider that around 40% of the ordinary matter that makes up stars, planets and galaxies remains undetected, concealed in the form of a hot gas in the complex cosmic web. Today, IAS scientists may have detected, for the first time, this hidden matter through an innovative statistical analysis of 20-year-old data.