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You’ve arrived at the HQ of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC)

For over 20 years, UK ATC has been designing and producing state-of-the-art instruments for the world’s biggest and most ambitious telescopes on land and in space

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Our Work

From our beginnings in 1998 to today, and into the future… this is the work we do with space agencies, universities and commercial partners at home and all over the world

UK ATC 21 Year Timeline

See some examples of what we do

21st Century engineering for 21st Century astronomy research is our business. Hear from our experts about some of the instruments we have worked on in the past as well as those we are working on now for future missions…

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Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

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Extremely Large Telescope (ELT)

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Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)

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Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA)

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Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

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Goniometer

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K-band Multi Object Spectrograph (KMOS)