The New X-IFU Configuration
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.
From the calcium in our bones to the iron in our blood, and oxygen we breathe, are largely the result of stellar processes, particularly supernovae. In the well known sentence "we are all made of stars," we acknowledge our cosmic heritage and the role of these stellar explosions in making life possible.
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 […]
The 12th X-IFU Consortium Meeting (CM12) took place this week, from 2nd to 6th of November, 2020. Due to the […]
This 16th issue opens with a short presentation of the next X-IFU Consortium meeting #12. We hope all consortium members […]
The Nature Astronomy journal has published, this Thursday, 10th of September, a series of articles written by astronomers about the […]
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