Replay the Einstein eclipse with TAROT
One century ago, on 1919 May 29th the astronomer Arthur Eddington confirmed the prediction of Albert Einstein that the light is deflected by masses. Eddington used the Sun as mass […]
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The 12 Planetary Space Weather Services of the Europlanet H2020 project are operational !
Under Horizon 2020, the Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure developed an entirely new Virtual Access Service led by IRAP, “Planetary Space Weather Services” (PSWS), that extends the concepts of space weather […]
Selection by the European Space Agency of the Comet Interceptor mission with two electron analyzers from IRAP !
The Comet Interceptor mission has been selected by the European Space Agency as its first Fast class mission for its Cosmic Vision programme. Comet Interceptor will be the first space […]
First electron spectra in the solar wind for MEA onboard BepiColombo !
The second phase of the commissioning of the two electron analyzers MEA onboard the BepiColombo/Mio spacecraft has been successfully achieved. The two instruments have been turned on on Monday, July […]
Mars 2020 Rover Gets a Super Instrument
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have installed the SuperCam Mast Unit onto the Mars 2020 rover. The instrument’s camera, laser and spectrometers can identify the chemical […]
The SuperCam instrument soon to be delivered to NASA
The Mast Unit of the SuperCam instrument of the American Mars 2020 mission will soon be delivered to NASA’s space research center, the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Pasadena-USA), in […]
First observations of atmospheric showers with NectarCAM
On the night of 22-23 May 2019, a prototype of the NectarCAM camera, installed in the focal plane of a medium-size telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) in […]
Athena X-IFU: a revolutionary instrument for understanding the Universe
A new step has just been successfully taken by the scientists in charge of the realization of the X-IFU spectrometer, the flagship instrument of the future X-rays space telescope : […]
Sébastien Deheuvels wins the SF2A 2019 Young Researcher Award
Since 2012, Sébastien Deheuvels has been a lecturer at the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France, and conducts his research at the IRAP/Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées. He is a specialist in internal […]