Espresso, The Worlds Largest Telescope

We are proud and excited to be the supplier of multiple prisms and lenses for the world’s largest telescope. The Very Large Telescope is operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. We have been working with Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) on their ESPRESSO (Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations) project, to which they are a participating institute.

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