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
When you operate satellites and a ground station, as the TU Delft does, you need to comply with all the legal and regulatory aspects, which are in place. The procedure to show this compliance is done in an external audit. At the end of 2018, such a (repeat) supervision audit on TU Delft (auditee) took … Continued
As part of the NL-RIA project (Dutch network on small space-borne Radar Instruments and Applications), a meeting was held on February 11 with radar altimetry users. The aim was to exchange experiences and opinions on radar altimeters; user requirements on one hand versus design trade-offs on the other. One goal of NL-RIA is the exploration … Continued
The Heinz Stoewer Space Award is awarded on an annual basis to one MSc student or Young Graduate working in the space domain at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering of TU Delft. The objectives of the award are to distinguish students of the faculty for their Master theses, encourage and stimulate high-quality work of Master … Continued