Together with other countries, the Netherlands will make the most of Earth observation satellites for the purpose of monitoring- and mitigating climate change…
Netherlands' first nanosatellite, Delfi-C3, has turned 15 yesterday! Launched on the 28th of April 2008, Delfi-C3 was the first university satellite of Dutch…
The second edition of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) NL Space Campus Summer School will take place from July 8 until July 14 . During the summer school students…
On April 11 at 8:48 a.m. Dutch time aboard the Norwegian satellite NorSat-TD, SmallCAT (Small Communication Active Terminal) will be launched into space SpaceX…
Typical stars in the Milky Way travel with velocities of approximately 100-300 kilometres per second. However, hypervelocity stars (HVS) travel at over a…
Mireia Leon Dasi, has won the Heinz Stoewer Space Award 2023 for her graduation project on predicting and preventing collisions with space debris. Her…
Advanced composites are gaining ground in many areas, also in aerospace and in the wind energy sector, as they are lightweight and help to save energy. What is…
Living materials such as bone, wood or fungi have the ability to adapt to their environment. They can renew, strengthen and even heal themselves when conditions…
The Netherlands Space Office (NSO) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded 4.5 million to Earth observation and planetary research. Funding within the 'Use…
Last September ESA selected Harmony as the tenth Earth Explorer mission. Two satellites orbiting Earth in convoy with a Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite…