Mission accomplished

foto pieterTU Delta, the independent student newspaper of TU Delft, interviewed professor Pieter Visser. Pieter Visser, aka ‘Satellite Pete’, has been appointed as professor of astrodynamics and space missions (2014). He spent more than twenty years working on the GOCE – the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer – mission.  He tells amongst others about his work on this Mission, the increase of interplanetary missions, more satellites flying in swarms and the problem of space debris. Read the full article in TU Delta here.