In July 2008, the International X-ray Observatory (IXO) was announced to the astronomical community. IXO is a joint X-ray observatory with participation from ESA, NASA and JAXA. This mission supersedes the Constellation-X mission concept.
Further details will be presented and discussed at planned upcoming meetings including the NASA IXO (previously Con-X) FST meeting August 20-22 at GSFC and the ESA IXO (previously XEUS) workshop at MPE in Garching Sept 17-19. These are open meetings and scientists from Europe, Japan and the US are encouraged to attend both meetings.
Please refer back to this webpage over the coming weeks as we add the IXO mission parameters.
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Announcements
The talks from the first International X-ray Observatory FST meeting are available from the project website. Please use the link below to access the presentation webpage.
+ August 2008 FST Meeting Page
+ International X-ray Observatory Project website
Due to a busy working schedule, we will be bringing in lunch each day of the FST meeting August 20-22. In order to cover the cost of the lunch and breaks we will be collecting an on-site registration fee of $75 for the meeting, or a per-day fee of $25. There is a link for credit card payments on the FST page here to pre-pay the registration fee (or use the link below), or you can pay on-site via cash, check, or credit cards.
Also, the current agenda is available for download (use link below). The agenda may still be updated, so please check the website for the latest version.
+ Pre-pay registration on-line
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Download final meeting agenda (PDF)
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Read full e-mail sent to meeting attendees about registration fees and agenda
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Read original announcement about the FST meeting
At a bilateral ESA-NASA meeting July 15-16, 2008, David Southwood, the ESA Director for the Science and Robotic Exploration Program, and Ed Weiler, the NASA Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, endorsed a plan to establish an International X-ray Observatory (IXO) study.
The IXO study will be the input to the US decadal process and to the ESA selection for the Cosmic Vision Plan and supersedes the ongoing XEUS and Constellation-X activities. Use the link below to read the announcement from Hideyo Kunieda (JAXA), Arvind Parmar (ESA), and Nicholas White (NASA) to the Con-X and XEUS teams for more information.
+ Read the announcement from Hideyo Kunieda (JAXA), Arvind Parmar (ESA), and Nicholas White (NASA)
+ International X-ray Observatory News Archive
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