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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.

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 […]

To celebrate the end of this year, please find below a message from our Principal Investigator, Didier Barret, and our […]

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

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