Announcement

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 […]

The year 2023 has just come to an end. 2024 opens with new perspectives for the X-IFU project and for the Consortium. On behalf of the X-IFU Consortium, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your confidence. We wish you all a very happy and successful new year!

The Warm Front-End Electronics (WFEE) Demonstrator Model was delivered to CNES on November 6, 7 and 8, 2023. Supply of the WFEE has been the responsibility of the Astroparticle and Cosmology (APC) laboratory.

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.

We are pleased to announce the publication of a brand-new website for the X-IFU spectrometer. This website has a new […]

The Nature Astronomy journal has published, this Thursday, 10th of September, a series of articles written by astronomers about the […]

Athena is the second large mission of the Cosmic Vision science program of the European Space Agency. Dedicated to the […]

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

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