Participating Groups & Organizations
AstroTech participants will have an opportunity to network with the broader astronomical instrumentation community. In addition to the instructional team, individuals from industry, government, and academic organizations will spend a day or more at AstroTech, giving feedback on instrument designs and participating in career networking sessions. This will enable AstroTech participants to learn about different career paths and opportunities in instrumentation, as well as expand their network.
Current Participating Organizations
NOIR Lab
US national center for ground-based, nighttime optical astronomy.
The Moving Universe Lab
Focuses on the study of stars and black holes in the nearby universe
Past Participating Organizations
Gemini Observatory / NSF's NOIR Lab
Gemini pioneers innovative approaches to proposing and observing,
Keck All-Sky Precision Adaptive Optics (KAPA)
The KAPA project includes team members from W.M. Keck Observatory, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego, UC Davis, Caltech, and University of Hawaii
Laboratory for Adaptive Optics at the University of California Santa Cruz
Enables exploratory research and development of adaptive optics systems for the next generation of high resolution astronomy instrumentation.
Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley
UC’s system’s premier space sciences research facility and one of the preeminent university laboratories in the country for space research.
Teledyne Imaging Sensors
A leader in high performance imaging systems for military, space, astronomy, and commercial applications
W. M. Keck Observatory
Advancing the frontiers of astronomy and sharing our discoveries, inspiring the imagination of all.
Planet
The leading provider of global, daily satellite imagery and insights
Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar system and the universe.
Capella Space
Building the world’s most advanced SAR satellites to unlock global insight, accelerating decisions that protect people, assets, and the planet.
Space Sciences Laboratory
SSL is one of only two university-based institutions in the U.S. capable of executing the full NASA mission lifecycle.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Uses innovative science, engineering and technology to solve the most difficult national security problems.
Contact us to become a partner in 2026
If your organization or group is interested in participating in AstroTech,
please contact one of the Co-Directors:
Jessica Lu (jlu.astro@berkeley.edu) or Candice Brown Pacheco(candiceb@ucsc.edu).
AstroTech Funding
AstroTech is funded by the Heising-Simons Foundation.
Past funding has come from the National Science Foundation through the Keck All-Sky Precision Adaptive Optics(KAPA) project (AST#1836016)
ISEE
Led by the Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators (ISEE) at University of California Observatories
https://uc-isee.org/
Contact Us
Individuals with questions about AstroTech should contact: astrotech@ucsc.edu