SPATIAL
Aix-Marseille Université
SPATIAL is specialized in the assembly, integration and testing of instruments and opto-mechanical systems
opto, as well as in thermal vacuum and cryogenic qualification, vibration qualification, and precision mechanical metrology.
SPATIAL is especially designed for filling the needs of major nowadays projects such as ESA's EUCLID space mission and ESO's future very large European telescope ELT.
PE9_8 - Galaxies – formation, evolution, clusters - Universe Sciences
PE10_14 - Earth observations from space/remote sensing - Earth System Science
SH7_9 - Energy, transportation and mobility - Human Mobility, Environment and Space
cryogenics
Research project activities of the local scientific communities are prioritized. Nevertheless, an access to external communities, may they be academic or from the privat sectors can be also provided upon request. An audit of the potential users' project will allow defining the fee.
The SPATIAL facility is made of two centers:
-POLARIS robotic polishing centre, to design, robotic production by stress polishing, and testing of large, highly aspherical optical parts (up to 2.5 m in diameter),
-SPATIAL AIT/AIV centre consisting of 940 m2 of classified rooms (ISO5,7, and 8) to assembly, integrate, test and calibrate components and instruments with an opto-mechanical core in the UV-visible-IR field, and within a space environment (tanks for optical vacuum up to 50m3).