X-IFU

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 […]

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

Today, as every year on 11 February, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This year, […]

Happy New Year 2021! We hope that you have all enjoyed some well-deserved holidays and came back motivated for the […]

Another year is getting to an end, and 2020 will be remembered as the year of a pandemic, which affected […]

On the 11th of December 2018, exactly two years ago today, I received a letter from the ESA Director of […]

The international society for optics and photonics (SPIE) is organising its annual Astronomical telescopes and instrumentation Symposium. This year, the […]