First consortium meeting in Barcelona
The team of the ESA ‘ARRAKIHS’ mission meets at the Institute of Space Sciences July 31, 2023 The research team that will lead ARRAKIHS, the first mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), has gathered at the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) in Barcelona for three days, during which more…
A team from the ARRAKIHS space mission visits IFCA
The meeting is a first contact between the members of the ARRAKIHS space mission, which will search for dark matter in the universe 2 February 2023 Representatives of the European Space Agency (ESA), the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Basque company Satlantis visited the Institute of Physics of…
ARRAKIHS selected as F-class ESA mission
The ARRAKIHS mission will study dark matter in the universe, which is five times more abundant than ordinary matter according to cosmological observables. 2 November 2022 The Science Programme Committee of the European Space Agency (ESA) has today officially approved the selection of the ARRAKIHS mission, the first ESA Science Programme mission to…