ESO’s OK arrives: Soxs ready for Chile – with a comment from Principal Investigator and our astrophysicist Sergio Campana – Media INAF

Last Friday, the INAF-guided spectrograph Soxs – acronym for Son of X-Shooter – obtained the coveted PAE, or “Preliminary Acceptance in Europe”, from the European Southern Observatory: the instrument has been approved and can now be shipped to the telescope for which it is intended, the New Technology Telescope of La Silla, in Chile – Read the full story on Media INAF

NTT, the 4-meter class telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, on which the SOXS spectrograph will be installed. Credits: ESO
NTT, the 4-meter class telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, on which the SOXS spectrograph will be installed. Credits: ESO