See below the overview of Newsletters published by the TU Delft Space Institute.
Miguel Bessa and Richard Norte, researchers at the TU Delft at the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering have been awarded an Interstellar Initiatives Grant from the Limitless Space Institute.The award is for their research ‘Origami Photonic Crystal Sails with Machine Learning’. Their research focus is about the development and demonstration of nanoscale origami … Continued
Three terahertz arrays for GUSTO mission GUSTO is a balloon telescope that will simultaneously map three types of material in the gas and dust between stars. TU Delft and SRON develop all three detector arrays for this NASA mission. The final two flight arrays have recently passed their pre-shipment review and are shipped to the … Continued
After the successful “Innovate your Space” symposium last year, the time has come for the TU Delft Space Institute, TNO and SRON to host another edition together, themed “Smart Space”, on Tuesday December 8th 2020. This online symposium will cover topics such as (sub)system satellite, instrument design and production, navigation and control including intelligent target … Continued
We would like to let you know that the TU Delft Space Institute has a new Institute Board in order to strengthen the DSI within the contributing faculties. The new DSI Institute Board is composed of: Eberhard Gill (Department Head Space Engineering, Aerospace Engineering (AE); Director DSI) Alle-Jan van der Veen (Chair Circuits and Systems, … Continued
We are very pleased to announce that the TU Delft Space Institute Advisory Board will be extended with Gerard van der Steenhoven in order to cover the downstream and application aspects of the theme Sensing from Space. Gerard van der Steenhoven is Director General of the KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute). The other members of … Continued
Apply to the SBIC Copernicus Masters and Galileo Masters Netherlands Challenge Always wanted to work with space technology? Are you in for a challenge? And have you got space related business ideas? You can join two international competitions in which your ideas can contribute to a better life on earth: the Copernicus Masters and the … Continued
The Zebro just came back from a visit to ESA in Hawaii, but what was it doing there? Hawaii offers unique conditions to recreate an extra-terrestrial environment for the locomotion tests of the Zebro. The model sent was a terrestrial Zebro, running the same walking algorithm as the Lunar Zebro, which got to spend almost … Continued
At the end of 2019, dean Henri Werij of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft signed a cooperation agreement with NASA Langley Research Center. Over the next three years, we will combine our knowledge in the field of solar sailing in order to develop future mission concepts. Solar sails act as a propulsion … Continued
Around 80 people joined the 2019 edition of the DSI-TNO-SRON ‘innovate your Space’ symposium, including experts from the space industry, knowledge institutes, government and academia. The symposium was a success with fruitful discussions, interesting keynotes, pitches and workshops related to this year’s topic ‘Innovation for Climate and Air Quality Monitoring’. The symposium started with a … Continued
The Fourth keynote speaker present at our symposium will be Sytze Kampen, Head of Technology at Airbus Defence and Space in Leiden. Kampen graduated in 1983 as MSc. (Ir.) from the faculty of Electrical Engineering at Delft University of Technology. He started with what was at that time the Space division of the Fokker company, … Continued