The development of instruments for astrophysics requires significant biological, mineral, and energy resources, which contributes to increasing pressure on the planet’s limited resources.
Aware of these challenges, UNIDIA is developing expertise to estimate the environmental footprint of its instruments with the goal of reducing it—when this estimation occurs early enough in the project’s lifecycle (eco-design)—and to guide the development of future instrument projects using objective environmental criteria.
Currently, we are testing and developing this approach on the European MOSAIC instrument (https://unidia.observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/-Mosaic-43-)
