Announcement

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 […]

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

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

In preparation of the consortium formalization by ESA, an additional five X-IFU co-investigators were recently appointed : S. Bandler (US), E. […]

The new X-IFU web site, developed by Studio Urbain, released on May 11th, 2016. It is an evolution of the […]