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Last week we had the 20th X-IFU Consortium meeting at IRAP in an hybrid format. A very successful gathering, in part to celebrate the success of the ESA led intermediate review of newAthena, indicating that we are on track for the planned mission adoption in 2027. On-going technology demonstration activities were extensively presented during the meeting. The meeting gathered around 140 attendees at the peak.
A major milestone has been reached beginning of October 2025 in the development of the Warm Front-End Electronics (WFEE) for […]
Image above : The CryoAC demonstration prototype integrated in the detectors flange of the Focal Plane Assembly Demonstration Model 1.1. […]
SRON is responsible for building the camera for the X-IFU imaging spectrometer onboard the NewAthena X-ray space telescope. A latest […]
The paper titled “Wide Band Transmission Response of the Filters for the X-IFU Detector of the Athena Observatory”, presented at ICSO […]
From July 2023 to November 2023, the Athena mission and its instruments underwent a reformulation phase. This led to a modification of certain X-IFU performances, detailed in the new scientific reference publication on the instrument. The publication has just been published in Experimental Astronomy.
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