Fractal S.L.N.E.
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MEGARA spectrograph for the GTC 10m telescope during the assembly at laboratory in Universidad Complutense (customer UCM, Madrid)
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Volume Phase Holographic gratings for ARES spectrograph at Joan Or¢ telescope(customer IEEC, Barcelona)
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SCORPIO instrument for the Gemini telescopes (customer: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio (USA))
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Pic legend 1: MEGARA spectrograph for the GTC 10m telescope during the assembly at laboratory in Universidad Complutense (customer UCM, Madrid)
Pic legend 2: Volume Phase Holographic gratings for ARES spectrograph at Joan Or¢ telescope(customer IEEC, Barcelona)
Pic legend 3: SCORPIO instrument for the Gemini telescopes (customer: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio (USA))

General information

  • Company name
    Fractal S.L.N.E.
  • Adress
    C/ Tulipán 2, portal 13, 1A. E-28231 Las Rozas de Madrid (Madrid)
  • Turnover
    0.75 million EUR in year 2024
  • Employees
    FRACTAL works with a team of 10 senior consultants in year 2024
  • SME
    YES
  • Contact Info:
    • Phone
      +34 916379640 / +34 630737981
    • Email
      info@fractal-es.com

Activity and Skills

FRACTAL SLNE is a private company belonging to the technological activities sector, founded in August 2005, being now almost 20 years old. We provide consultancy in Management, System Engineering, RAMS analyses, Optics and opto-mechanics, Mechanics, Software and Control systems, for professional Astrophysics (ground-based telescope and Space astronomical missions).

FRACTAL customers are Research centres, professional observatories, universities, and private engineering Aerospace companies.

Our main area of expertise is the development of professional astronomical telescopes, Instrumentation and Software.

Starting from the basic scientific requirements, FRACTAL can produce feasibility studies, designs (at different levels) or even the development of the whole scientific project. In particular, FRACTAL can do the specification, design, acquisition and tests of collimators, cameras, filters, prisms, and Volume holographic gratings (VPHs), especially for Astronomy applications and measuring systems. FRACTAL has also developed proprietary software tools for Management and System Engineering and has a human resources business line.

FRACTAL has two know-how license agreement with ESO: for Continuous flow cryostat technology and for Anti-Vibration mounts for Cold heads. This technology has been applied to SCORPIO (Gemini) and CHORUS (GTC) instruments, among others.

FRACTAL’s projects and references: https://www.fractalslne.es/files/FRACTAL-Introduccion.pdf.

A presentation of the company is on-line: https://www.fractalslne.es/files/FRACTAL-Services-Instrumentation-and-s…

Contracts for Big Science facilities

[OTHER - CALAR ALTO OBERVATORY - UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID] TARSIS Instrument (2023 - 2029)
Management, System Engineering, Optics, Mechanics for TARSIS instrument
[ESO - UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID] MOSAIC Instrument for the ELT (2022 - 2030)
Management, System Engineering, Optics, Mechanics for NIR channel NIR spectrograph and Calibration module 
[OTHER - GEMINI TELESCOPE – SOUTHWEST RESARCH INSTITUTE] Optics, Mechanics and Cryogenics, of SCORPIO instrument (2017 - 2022)
Contract with South West Research Institute (San Antonio, USA)
[GTC] MEGARA instrument for the 3.5m telescope (2017)
Management and System Engineering, as well of other technical work packages
[OTHER - SAN PEDRO MARTIR TELESCOPE] Management and System Engineering for the 6.5m telescope in Baja California (2017)
Project participated by two Mexican Research institutions (IA-UNAM in Mexico DF and INAOE in Puebla) and two in the United States of America (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the University of Arizona’s Department of Astronomy / Steward Observatory).
[OTHER - CALAR ALTO OBSERVATORY] CARMENES instrument for the 3.5m telescope at Calar Alto (2015)
Management and System Engineering, as well of other technical work packages

Relevant R&D projects

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