Software


New Generation of Proposal Handling System (PHS)
for ESA Missions: Evolution of XMM-Newton Software

Last week we attended the Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XXXIII in Tucson (Arizona), were Jose Antonio Quero from Quasar presented his work on the development of the new generation of Proposal Handling System (PHS) for ESA missions. In the latest years, the evolution of the ESA XMM-Newton PHS […]


Quasar is looking for a Software Engineer profile to work with the SIMBAD team

Earth Observation (EO) applications and services are rapidly increasing. Sentinel missions are being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Copernicus Program, a European effort to monitor the Earth and its different habitats. Each Sentinel mission is based on a constellation of two satellites to fulfil revisit and […]


Yebes Observatory

On the 19th of November 2020 an agreement was signed between the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and the Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (CNIG) for the execution of the project “Infraestructuras para la actualización de los radiotelescopios del Observatorio de Yebes (YNART)” co-financed by the FEDER Spanish programme 2014-2020. […]


Quasar is looking for a Software Test Engineer to work with VLT/ELT/ALMA

Quasar Science Resources S.L. is searching for a software test engineer of science operations dataflow software for the ESO La Silla-Paranal and ALMA Observatories. We consider this is a good opportunity to work in an interesting and long term project. In principle, this is the first position of several to […]


Athena SIXTE simulator for the Athena X-IFU event reconstruction module (SIRENA)

Quasar has been working, in collaboration with the IFCA, performing optimizations and developing multithreading features in the Athena SIXTE simulator for the Athena X-IFU event reconstruction module (SIRENA). IFCA is currently developing the SIRENA package as part of the publicly available SIXTE end-to-end simulator. SIRENA is the software aimed at […]