AAO to build thermal imager for Gilmour Space AAO has announced a new partnership with Gilmour Space Technologies, to design and build a new sovereign space technology for launch in late 2023. AAO is world renowned for its ground-based precision instrumentation for telescopes and is now branching out to non-astronomy…
Designed and built by AAO, the AESOP (Australian-European Southern Observatory Positioner) arrived in Potsdam, Germany in late 2021. AESOP is an optical fibre positioner unit for the 4MOST instrument currently under construction for the 4-metre diameter VISTA telescope in Chile, which is operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The…