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From November 20 to 22, 178 men and women gathered online for the 17th meeting of the X-IFU consortium.

Congratulations to Florent CASTELLANI who defended his thesis entitled “Study of the scientific and instrumental performances of Athena’s X-Ray Integral Field Unit”, on Friday November 17, 2023 at IRAP. 

On Wednesday November 8, 2023, ESA’s Science Programme Committee (SPC) formally and unanimously approved the restart of industrial studies for the Athena mission, still considered as a flagship mission.

Our colleague Graziella Branduardi-Raymont – Member of the Athena/X-IFU Science Advisory Team – passed away unexpectedly last week.

Following the necessity to bring the ESA Cost at Completion below €1.3 billion, the Athena mission and the X-IFU have entered a reformulation phase in 2022.

2022 was a rather intense year for X-IFU with the unanticipated effects of the cost overrun of the Athena mission. […]

A New X-IFU has arrived! From 29 November to 1st December, 186 women and men gathered online for the 15th X-IFU Consortium […]

Image credit: © ESO The astronomer Carl Sagan once said: “We are made of stardust”. This is, to a large […]

The test platform developed by IRAP and CNES in Toulouse is a key element of the demonstration of the detection […]