New appointments within the consortium

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Jiri Svoboda from the Astronomical Institute (Czech Academy of Science) has been appointed board member, and Jan Soucek from the Institute of Atmospherics Physics (Czech Academy of Science) appointed Instrument Co-Investigator. This is the first step of the formal entry process of Czech Republic in the consortium.

On the Finnish side, following the completion of the ICC, Seppo Korpela from the University of Helsinky have been appointed Instrument Co-Investigator.

The formalisation of the Finnish and Czech contributions in Athena X-IFU marks a new step, an official recognition for the teams working on the project.



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