The IMASCOD simulator is used to reproduce the imaging process of the ECLAIRs telescope of the SVOM mission. The imaging process starts by choosing the……
The coded mask, recently integrated on the ECLAIRs telescope, makes it possible to localise X-ray sources in the instrument’s field of view. This crucial feature……
The ECLAIRs instrument has produced its first image. After years of development by the APC, CEA, IRAP and CNES teams, and after several months of……
The flight model of the ECLAIRs coded mask delivered to CNES. Produced under the responsibility of the Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory (APC, Paris) in partnership……
If technology had allowed it, the coded mask of the ECLAIRs instrument might have been made in 3D printing. But what was not possible for……
ECLAIRs: Integration of the flight model detection plan completed, after the “front” side, it is the “back” side that has just been integrated. After the……
The flight model of the UGTS, Scientific Processing and Management Unit, has just arrived in the clean room. The ECLAIRs instrument’s flight computer unit, the……
The flight model of the ECLAIRs instrument is beginning to take shape. During the period of lockdown, there were few people in the CNES clean……
Final step before the delivery of the STM telescopes of the French SVOM payload This is the last step for our models before delivery in……
The SVOM family is in mourning Our friend and colleague Pierre Mandrou, astrophysicist at former CESR and now IRAP, passed away on Wednesday, September 27……