Go-ahead for Athena
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.
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 […]
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