The ELECTRONICS group is involved in the technical development of ground-based and space-borne facilities for the research in astrophysics. Our main contributions concern the fields of radioastronomy and solar system exploration:

• spectrometer of the HIFI instrument mounted on the Herschel satellite of the ESA,
• digitization and correlator systems of the ALMA interferometer,
• ChemCam instrument mounted on the Mars exploration rover Curiosity of the NASA,
• Wisdom ground-penetrating radar for ESA Exomars mission,
• SuperCam instrument for the NASA Mars 2020 mission,
• digitization system for the giant radio telescope SKA.

These programs are supported by major national or supranational bodies (CNES, ESA, NASA, ESO, etc.) and are often conducted in the frame of national collaborations (IRAM, IRAP, LESIA, LATMOS, station de radioastronomie de Nançay, etc.) or international collaborations (ASTRON, LANL, NRAO, etc.).

The team welcomes students from various courses (BTS, IUT, LMD, engineering school, doctoral student) throughout the year to contribute to the design, testing and validation activities. The team also contributes to teaching tasks in IUT and engineering school.