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
Miniaturisation of spacecraft offers opportunities for universities that want to explore space. During his inaugural speech as a professor, Bert Vermeersen, described a future in which instruments from universities hitch rides to space. Read the full article of TU Delta, the indepent student newspaper of TU Delft, here.
This afternoon saw the official kick off of the TU Delft Space Institute by the Interact Rover. The Rover, developed jointly by TU Delft and ESA, was located at ESA/ESTEC in Noordwijk and operated remotely from TU Delft during the opening symposium of the TU Delft Space Institute. The new institute is intended to bring … Continued