5 papers
Towards sustainable space research in France
Alexandre Santerne, Héloïse Meheut, Didier Barret +8
During the 2024's quinquennial scientific roadmap of CNES, a specific group worked on setting recommendations to decrease the environmental footprint of space science activities. T…
The X-ray Integral Field Unit at the end of the Athena reformulation phase
Philippe Peille, Didier Barret, Edoardo Cucchetti +279
The Athena mission entered a redefinition phase in July 2022, driven by the imperative to reduce the mission cost at completion for the European Space Agency below an acceptable ta…
Scenarios of future annual carbon footprints of astronomical research infrastructures
Jürgen Knödlseder, Mickael Coriat, Philippe Garnier +1
Research infrastructures have been identified as an important source of greenhouse gas emissions of astronomical research. Based on a comprehensive inventory of 1,211 ground-based…
Assessment of the environmental impacts of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Mid-Sized Telescope
Gabrielle dos Santos Ilha, Marianne Boix, Jürgen Knödlseder +6
Astronomical observatories have been identified as substantial contributors to the carbon footprint of astrophysical research. Being part of the collaboration that currently develo…
Life Cycle Assessment of the Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit
Didier Barret, Vincent Albouys, Jürgen Knödlseder +15
The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) is the high-resolution X-ray spectrometer to fly on board the Athena Space Observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA). It is being develop…