Latest news
16-07-2014 - ESA appointed Science Study Team
ESA appointed today the Athena Science Study Team: Kirpal Nandra (Lead scientist), Xavier Barcons, Didier Barret, Anne Decourchelle, Andy Fabian, Jan-Willem den Herder, Hironori Matsumoto, Luigi Piro, Randall Smith, Dick Willingale. More here
27-06-2014 - Athena formally selected by ESA
ESA has selected the Athena advanced telescope for high-energy astrophysics as its second ‘Large-class’ science mission. See the ESA press release
05-06-2014 - X-IFU Focal Plane Assembly meeting
X-IFU FPA meeting is taking place at SRON.
04-06-2014 - 2nd X-IFU consortium meeting announced
The 2nd X-IFU consortium meeting will take place at IAPS from October 28th to 30th.
28-04-2014 - Athena background meeting
Meeting in Roma (IAPS) to discuss and start organising the work to be done on the X-IFU instrumental background.
05-03-2014 - First X-IFU Consortium meeting
The first X-IFU consortium took place at IRAP in Toulouse (France). The meeting focused on the mission proposal and the organisation of the X-IFU proto-consortium.
