Astronomy and space science
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CFHT Megacam
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Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope
Large suite of CCDs for focal plane mosaic in Megacam, the wide field camera mounted on CFHT.
Smaller guide CCDs for peripheral telescope functions.
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Gaia
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ESA’s mission to create an accurate 3D map of the Milky Way
CCDs for the primary scientific instrument, involving the manufacture in significant volumes of some of the highest performance large area CCD image sensors ever produced. These will form the largest focal plane of CCDs ever flown.
Anticipated for launch in 2011.
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Hubble Space Telescope
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NASA
Large area back-illuminated custom CCDs for the WFC3 (Wide Field Camera 3) instrument for the Hubble Space Telescope.
Optimised CCDs for the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
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Kepler
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NASA - searching for extra solar, habitable, Earth-like planets
Suite of large area back illuminated CCDs for the Kepler space telescope. A very large focal plane supplied for a very important space telescope.
Due for launch in 2008.
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Lamost
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Chinese Large sky-Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope project
Ground-based initiative to observe multiple objects in the sky across a very wide area.
Large suite of 4k x 4k back-illuminated CCDs for LAMOST's very large and innovative fibre fed spectrograph.
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Solar-B
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3-year JAXA space mission to study the Sun’s magnetic fields
Large area back-illuminated CCDs for the EIS (Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer).
Large area back-illuminated CCDs for the XRT (X-Ray Telescope) Instrument.
Suite of three very different custom CCDs for the SOT (Solar Optical Telescope) focal plane package.
Launched in September 2006. Now called ‘Hinode’.
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STEREO
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NASA mission to study the Sun in 3D using two satellites
Large area, back-illuminated CCDs for 3 visible instruments and one EUV instrument on each satellite on the STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) mission.
3D study of the solar corona, with emphasis on Coronal Mass Ejection.
Launched in October 2006.
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COROT
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CNES space telescope - star seismology and searching for extra-solar planets
Large area back-illuminated CCDs for the main science focal plane for the COROT (COnvection and ROTation) photometer.
Scheduled for launch in 2006.
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MOST
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Canadian Space Agency’s space telescope
Star tracker and science sensor for use during astronomical observations of the MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of Stars) telescope.
Launched in July 2003.
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SXI
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Solar X-ray Imager on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)
Custom back-illuminated, full frame, soft X-ray optimised CCDs for SXI.
Launched in May 2006 to monitor Earth and space weather systems and to help track global climate change.
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SWIFT
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NASA’s multi-wavelength observatory studying the origin of gamma ray bursts
‘Open Electrode’ X-ray sensitive CCDs for the X-ray camera, XRT.
CCDs for use in the UVOT visible and UV ICCD detectors.
Launched in November 2004.
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Rosetta
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ESA’s decade-long, comet-chasing mission (Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko)
Large area, back-illuminated CCDs in custom packaging for the OSIRIS science camera.
Launched in March 2004.
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XMM-Newton
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ESA’s X-ray multi mirror satellite observatory
Supply of a suite of custom back-illuminated, X-ray optimised, deep depletion CCDs for the RGS (Reflection Grating Spectrometer) instruments.
Supply of custom 'Open Electrode' frame transfer, X-ray optimised, deep depletion CCDs for the EPIC (European Photon Imaging Camera) instruments.
Supply of visible imaging CCDs in for the OM (Optical Monitor) Instrument.
Mission exceeded life expectations with CCDs in good health. Mission extension until 2010.
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