PicSat carries a Cedrat Technologies piezo stage XY400M

The magazine 360°R&D from SRC comes back on CTEC piezo stage 400M embedded in the nanosatellite PicSat. Indeed PicSat carried a Cedrat Technologies piezo stage XY400M that was a crucial element of the payload. PicSat was a nano-satellite aimed at observing the transit of the young exoplanet Beta Pictoris b in front of its bright and equally young star Beta Pictoris, and at demonstrating an innovative technological concept to use optical fibres for astronomical observations from Space.

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