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GPI Gemini Planet Imager. Near-infrared AO coronagraphic high contrast imaging system designed for detection of extra-solar planets. UCLA is responsible for the back-end science instrument, an integral field spectrometer based on lenslets.
Scheduled Delivery: 2010 to Gemini South Telescope at the Cassegrain focus.
MOSFIRE Multi-Object Spectrometer for Infra-Red Exploration
Scheduled Delivery: Fall, 2009
Designed to be located at the Cassegrain focus of the Keck I telescope
FLITECAM First LIght: September, 2002 at Lick Observatory
Scheduled Delivery: Spring, 2008 to SOFIA (NASA Ames)
Infrared camera for SOFIA

Delivered

SHARC First Light: May 14, 2006
Delivered: April, 2006
Infrared Camera for Adaptive Optics System at Keck
OSIRIS First Light: February 22, 2005
Delivered: February, 2005
Integral Field Spectrograph for Adaptive Optics System at Keck
NIRC2 First Light: July, 2001 at Keck Observatory
Infrared camera for Adaptive Optics System at Keck
Detector Electronics System delivered to Caltech September, 1999
NIRSPEC First Light: April, 1999
Near Infrared Spectrometer for the W.M. Keck Telescope
USNO Infrared Camera First Light: June, 1994
A general purpose near infrared (JHK) camera was designed and commissioned for the 61-inch telescope of the US Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona
Gemini First Light: June, 1993
Two Channel Infrared Camera for the 3-meter Shane Telescope at Lick Observatory
K-Cam First Light: March, 1992 at Lick Observatory
Near Infrared Camera System. Initially K band only, upgraded in 1998 to JHK. Most recently K-Cam was drafted into service as the first light camera for the Keck Adaptive Optics System.

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