Feb 3, 2020 | Space Education
Over the past few months, we have been involved in a huge science communication project. A new visitors centre was built at the worldwide-known Roque de los Muchachos Observatory and we have been developing all its science-and-technology-related content. About...
Jan 14, 2018 | Science & Software, Space Industry, Space Robotics
We have recently assembled the software for a completely new space-related project: TBT, a robotic telescope that will look for unidentified objects close to Earth. Within ESA’s SSA and GSTP programmes the TBT project was born in 2012 to detect and keep track on...
Oct 1, 2017 | Scaled Models
ESA’s mission Gaia was our choice to create a new 3D scale model. Within ESA Horizon 2000 programme, Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, by Arianespace, using a Soyuz ST-B rocket. It was launched from the French Guiana into a Lissajous orbit at Sun-Earth L2....
Feb 10, 2017 | Scaled Models, Space Education
At Space Robotics, we are constantly building space missions’ scaled models for many porpuses, and all our designs always include the finest details to match the originals. But this time, we have gone one step further, we have built an actual functional...
Aug 10, 2016 | Scaled Models, Space Robotics
We have recently created a fully functional scale model of a TBT telescope, that can be controlled with your phone. Within ESA’s SSA and GSTP programmes the TBT project was born in 2012 to detect and keep track on NEOs. ESA (European Space Agency) is one of the...
May 9, 2016 | Science & Software
On May 9th 2016 a Mercury Transit occurred, and at Space Robotics, we had to do something about it. To help those with access to a telescope enjoy it, and to approach it to anyone else, we built the 2016 Mercury Transit App. About the Mercury Transit A transit...
Oct 5, 2015 | Science & Software, Space Robotics
We have recently designed and successfully installed a security system for an astronomical observatory. Security installations are crucial for amateur and professional observatories. The telescope and all the equipment must be weather resistant as well as prepared...
Aug 13, 2015 | Multimedia Creation
We have recently designed multimedia material for the presentation of a completely new space-related project: TBT, a robotic telescope that will look for unidentified objects close to Earth. Within ESA’s SSA and GSTP programmes the TBT project was born in 2012...
Jun 2, 2015 | Multimedia Creation, Science & Software
We have recently designed and successfully developed the new web page of NASA’s MDSCC (Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex) and all the software included in it. MDSCC is one of the three ground stations that constitute NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN),...
May 19, 2015 | Space Industry, Space Robotics
We have installed a robotic telescope from scratch at NASA’s Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC). The telescope can already be remote-controlled during observations and it will be fully-automatic at some point in the future. The new drivers are...
