Avancem successfully delivers the vacuum system for ATHENA, which will serve to complete a cryostat for ground calibration of the detector plane of the XIFU instrument.
Athena – Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics – will be an X-ray telescope designed to address the Cosmic Vision science theme ‘The Hot and Energetic Universe’. By combining a large X-ray telescope with state-of-the-art scientific instruments, Athena will be able to make an important contribution to answering these questions (ESA).
Fernando MIRAPEIX and Antonio FERNÁNDEZ were at INTA for the final acceptance tests.
