See below the overview of Newsletters published by the TU Delft Space Institute.
On September 7th, the TU Delft Space Institute gave a presentation on behalf of CESAER to ESA Director General Jan Woerner. CESAER (Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research) is a non-profit international association of leading European universities of technology. The occasion was ESA’s request for input from CESAER with respect to … Continued
This year, the Annual General Meeting of the Netherlands Space Society (NVR) was held at TU Delft, at the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) on Monday, June 20th. At this meeting, the director of the TU DSI gave a general presentation about the DSI. Furthermore, students of the Delft Aerospace Rocket … Continued
The June/July 2016 edition of Acta Astronautica hosts a Special Section of 10 scientific peer reviewed papers, selected from the eighth International Workshop on Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying (IWSCFF). The Workshop was held at the Delft University of Technology from June 8-10, 2015. The papers of this Special Section cover a broad range of aspects … Continued
The Department of Space Engineering at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering will welcome three additional positions in the next couple of months: a Space Systems Engineer, an Assistant Professor and a Research Engineer. While the Space System Engineer will strengthen the focus area of Planetary Exploration by working on the PRIDE-JUICE and SPEX-LOUPE project as … Continued
A new KUKA robot, acquired by the TU Delft Space Institute, recently arrived at Science Centre Delft. It will be used for a project which will research how modified COTS robotic components can be used for low-cost robotic spaceflight applications. Long-term goal of the project is to perform a successful reliability testing of the … Continued
March 1st 2016, the study association of the faculty of Aerospace Engineering VSV ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ organizes another edition of its annual aerospace symposium. This year’s theme is ‘New Space: Launching Entrepreneurship’. The symposium will focus on the current shift towards privatization and mass production that takes place throughout the entire space industry. This focus has brought various interesting speakers … Continued
Unfortunately, the weather this year in Antarctica did not facilitate the launch of the NASA balloon borne Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory (STO2). The anti-cyclone pattern around Antarctica has degraded to the point that, if launched, STO2 would only have a ~7 day mission and will not be recoverable. NASA Headquarters decided to let STO2 to be stored … Continued
Launch of the NASA balloon borne Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory (STO2) is expected soon. A giant helium balloon will carry the detectors developed by Delft University of Technology to detect radiation in the terahertz range. This allows scientists to map the composition of dust clouds in our Milky Way, providing them with one of the missing … Continued
On the evening of November 17th, the Netherlands Space Society (NVR), SpaceNed, student society VSV Leonardo da Vinci and the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) together with the TU Delft Space Institute (DSI) will organise a networking event for students at the Faculty of Aeropace Engineering at Delft University of Technology. Goal of this event … Continued
October 16th saw the launch of the Stratos II+ rocket, developed by the team of Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineers (DARE) of Delft University of Technology to reach a new European altitude record for amateur rocketry. The lift-off of the 7 m tall Stratos II+ rocket occurred on Friday, October 16th at 16:33 from its launch … Continued