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
The Third keynote speaker present at our symposium will be Radboud Koop, Science Coordinator at NSO Netherlands Space Office. Koop received his MSc. and PhD. in Geodesy at Delft University of Technology, focusing his research on global gravity field modeling using satellite gravity gradiometry. Thereafter he served as assistant professor at the Faculty of Geodesy, … Continued
The second keynote speaker present at our symposium will be Pieternel Levelt, head of the Climate Observations Department at Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) and professor at Delft University of Technology. Levelt studied Chemistry at the Free University of Amsterdam, and obtained her Master degree in 1987 in Physical Chemistry. She did her PhD at … Continued
The first keynote speaker present at our symposium will be Han Dolman, professor at VU University Amsterdam, Department of Earth Sciences. In 1992 Dolman pioneered the use of the eddy-covariance technique for continuous, long term measurement of water (evaporation) and carbon fluxes. This led to the development of the European project called ‘EuroFlux’ which resulted … Continued
Below the program is presented of our Joint Symposium “Innovate Your Space” by the TU-Delft Space Institute, TNO and SRON with the theme: ‘Innovation for Climate and Air Quality Monitoring’. If any alterations would be made, they will be posted on this page. 09:30 Registration 10:00 Welcome 10:15 P. Levelt (KNMI) on … Continued
After last year’s successful “Innovate your Space” symposium, the TU Delft Space Institute, TNO and SRON will together host a new edition, themed “Innovation for Climate and Air Quality Monitoring”, on Tuesday November 26th, 2019. There will be keynote talks and, in the afternoon, various theme-related workshops will be held. Also, young talent will showcase … Continued
Ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths of this rise (3 mm) coming in the last five years alone.The findings are from a major climate assessment known as the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE), to which TU Delft also contributed, and are published … Continued
Unknown to many, the top of the high-rise EWI-building along the Mekelweg hosts a full-fledged multi-band satellite ground station. It was and is used to control Delfi C3, the very first satellite of a Dutch university, launched in 2008 and still operational and its successor Delfi-n3Xt (pronounced ‘Delfi-next’), launched in 2013. Both successful missions were … Continued