{"id":561,"date":"2017-11-03T15:52:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahead.astropa.inaf.it\/?page_id=561"},"modified":"2020-05-07T10:36:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T08:36:02","slug":"facility-tna-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ahead.astropa.inaf.it\/index.php\/facility-tna-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Facility TNA Description- AHEAD 2015-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

AHEAD 2015-2019<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Objectives<\/strong>
\nThe AHEAD TNA ground and test facility will give access to some of the best European ground test and calibration facilities relevant\u00a0for high-energy astrophysics. Such facilities are used to test and\/or calibrate new technology space hardware as well as hardware developed for specific space missions, but can be used in a wider context. Those\u00a0facilities are currently only offered in the context of international and national collaborations or (rarely) via access costs at the expense of the external teams. With the implementation of a network of facilities in the\u00a0AHEAD TNA, external team access costs will be covered with the support of the European Commission, strengthening scientific and technological exchanges among European and international teams. In particular,\u00a0we foresee that such a novel facility network will enable access to teams in European and Associated Countries with no national access to ground facilities and, thus, to benefit from the Transnational Access inbeing able to test and calibrate their instruments with no strings attached. They will also be able to take\u00a0advantage of high-level, already equipped and fully working facilities at no cost. The participation of the\u00a0research facilities offering Transnational Access via AHEAD will increase the availability and access of these facilities at the European and international level, and will extend the services offered to the high-energy\u00a0astrophysics scientific community as well as to a broader community.<\/p>\n