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Assembly of Demonstration Model for X-IFU’s camera is now complete

SRON is responsible for building the camera for the X-IFU imaging spectrometer onboard the NewAthena X-ray space telescope. A latest […]

The X-IFU Gazette #12 has been released!

The 12th issue of the X-IFU Gazette has been released! For this issue, our contributors from IRAP, CNES and the […]

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The X-IFU Consortium meeting #10

The 10th X-IFU Consortium Meeting was hosted by IRAP in Toulouse from Monday 16th to Friday 20th of September. Participants […]

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The X-IFU Gazette #11 is online!

The 11th issue of the X-IFU Gazette has been released! This issue of the X-IFU newsletter will come back to […]

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Instrument Preliminary Requirement Review : SUCCESSFUL!

The Instrument Preliminary Requirement Review of the X-IFU has been declared successful by the joint ESA and CNES review Board, […]

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X-IFU Gazette #10 just released!

The 10th issue of the X-IFU Gazette has just been released.

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New appointments within the consortium

Jiri Svoboda from the Astronomical Institute (Czech Academy of Science) has been appointed board member, and Jan Soucek from the […]

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Merry christmas and happy new year!

Time has come to close 2018. This has been another very important year for X-IFU with the formal appointment of […]

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Athena X-IFU becomes an official consortium!

After more than four years of existence as a proto-consortium, on December 11th, 2018, following the successful completion of the […]

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The X-IFU Gazette #9

EDITORIAL September was a rather busy month for X-IFU. Following the X-IFU Consortium meeting #8 held in Geneva on the […]

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A fruitful Consortium Meeting #8

The eighth X-IFU Consortium meeting was hosted by the University of Geneva. It span from September 10th to 14th. As […]

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IRAP, now the coolest spot of Toulouse

Big day at IRAP, the Cryostat is now fully integrated and cooling down. This high precision technology equipment will eventually […]

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SPIE 2018 X-IFU overview paper

The overview X-IFU paper published in the proceedings of the SPIE 2018 in Austin (TX) is available from the ArXiv.

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