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Missions & Experiments

Leadership contribution

Space missions, observatories and instruments where ICE-CSIC leads an official contribution

ARIEL

Future ESA mission to understand how exoplanets form
Credits: Open Cosmos.

Atlantic Constellation

A new-generation satellite constellation for high-resolution Earth monitoring and climate resilience

AtLAST

A concept for a next generation observatory operating at sub-millimeter and millimeter wavelengths

CARMENES

Ground-based instrument to look for planets around stars smaller than our Sun

CTAO

The largest ground-based gamma-ray detection observatory in the world

EUCLID

ESA mission to understand dark matter and dark energy

LISA

Future ESA mission to explore the gravitational universe

PAU

Ground-based survey collecting spectral energy for millions of galaxies

PAZ

Space experiment to reduce the forecast error through GNSS

PLATO

Future ESA mission looking for extrasolar planetary systems

Scientific and technical contribution

Important contributions to the development of space missions and instruments

 

ARRAKIHS

Future ESA mission to explore the low surface brightness Universe

DES

Ground-based survey uncovering the nature of dark energy

DESI

Ground-based experiment creating a 3D map of the Universe

HydroGNSS

Future ESA mission to measure key hydrological climate variables

LIGO

Ground-based facility to detect and study gravitational waves

LST

Ground-based telescope exploring the High-Energy Universe
Multiband imagery of a Lunar breccia rock at ICE-CSIC Meteorite and Sample Return clean lab

MERCAM

A dual spectral camera designed as a reusable detector for a variety of Lunar and Martian-focused missions

Scientific Contributions

ICE-CSIC members are part of the scientific teams involved in the space missions and observatories

CHEOPS

ESA mission to characterise exoplanets

DART

NASA mission for asteroid deflection

EINSTEIN PROBE

Space mission studying transient phenomena shining in X-ray light.

EINSTEIN TELESCOPE

Next generation gravitational waves ground-based observatory

eXTP

Future space mission to study matter under extreme conditions

FERMI

NASA mission exploring the high-energy Universe

HERA

ESA mission examining the first test of asteroid deflection

LSST

Future ground-based survey to study the structure and evolution of the universe on a grand scale

LS4

Future ground-based time-domain survey

NewAthena

Future ESA mission comprising next generation large X-ray observatory

ROMAN

Future NASA observatory to study dark energy, exoplanets and infrared astrophysics

SKAO

Future world’s largest radio observatory

Past Missions

IRAIT

2006- 2016

MAGIC

2006-2017

LISA Pathfinder

2015-2020