DESHIMA is a completely new type of astronomical instrument with which a 3D map of the early universe can be constructed. In early October, Dutch and Japanese researchers installed the DESHIMA measurement instrument under the ASTE telescope in Chile. Over the past few days, DESHIMA has recorded light from an astronomical source for the first … Continued
The Department of Space Engineering in cooperation with the Else Kooi Laboratory and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq – Brazil) has been developing micropropulsion systems for use in nano- and pico-satellites (satellites below 10 kg) as an effort to improve and extend the capabilities of these spacecraft. Currently, two different thrusters … Continued
The SSP will be hosted by the Netherlands Space Office (NSO), TU Delft, Leiden University and ESA-ESTEC. The program is from 25 June to 24 August 2018, and will mostly take place at the TU Delft campus More than 200 graduate students, space industry professionals and ISU Staff from over 30 countries will convene in The … Continued
A team of researchers, the TU Delft GrapheneX-team, is preparing an experiment to test graphene in space-like zero-gravity, for potential future use as a light sail in space-craft propulsion, such as for Starshot (article Volkskrant May 27th 2017, in Dutch). The GrapheneX team successfully submitted their experiment proposal to ESA Education’s Drop Your Thesis! Programme in October … Continued
On November 9th, the TU Delft Space Institute together with TNO will organize a full-day symposium. This event is a unique opportunity to discuss and get updated on state of the art research and the challenging aspects for future space. The program will be an intense mixture of presentations, poster sessions, panel discussions as well as matchmaking with … Continued
TU Delft is involved in two of the four winning teams of the ESA Sysnova Lunar CubeSat competition to perform the Phase 0 design of a scientific CubeSat mission to the Moon. The LUMIO project would monitor micro-meteoroid impacts on the far side of the Moon based on a 12U CubeSat orbiting around the L2 … Continued
As the TU Delft Space Institute (DSI) is almost 2.5 years in existence, DSI organized a TU Delft Space2020 workshop last Thursday March 30th. It took place at the inspiring venue Lijm & Cultuur in Delft, and was well-attended by over 60 people. The purpose of this internal workshop was to gather input on the … Continued
NASA has selected a science mission that will measure emissions from the interstellar medium, which is the cosmic material found between stars. This data will help scientists determine the life cycle of interstellar gas in our Milky Way galaxy, witness the formation and destruction of star-forming clouds, and understand the dynamics and gas flow in … Continued
On Friday March 10th, Zac Manchester, Founder of the KickSat project and Postdoctoral Fellow of Harvard, visited TU Delft and gave a talk about the KickSat project, crowdsourcing the World’s Smallest Spacecraft. Zac initiated the KickSat project as an outgrowth of his Ph.D. research at Cornell, where he developed the electrical, mechanical, and communications systems underlying … Continued
In an earlier news item on this site, the very successful launch of the Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory (STO2) on December 8th 2016 was already described. On March 7th, NVR together with the TU Delft Space Institute (DSI) organised an evening lecture about this launch at the TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. At this lecture, … Continued