Tropomi is a Dutch-made satellite instrument that examines air quality more accurately than ever. Here are twelve questions about the heart of the Sentinel-5P Earth Observation satellite: What is Tropomi? Tropomi is a satellite Read More
Space industry updates from the Netherlands and the Dutch space sector, gathered under the tag NLspace
Remote sensing experts recently pitched the concept called ‘StedenDoek’ at the Copernicus Climate Smart City Hackethon in the city of Amersfoort. Piet Mondriaan, one of Amersfoort’s famous historical residents, famous for his abstract paintings Read More
On Sunday 4 October ESA welcomes everybody to take a virtual tour on the ESTEC open days. This virtual tour takes visitors backstage of the ESTEC Test Centre, which is specially equipped to check space missions Read More
The Dutch Research Council NWO has awarded funding to nine new research proposals in the area of Earth observation. The new projects will investigate for example geothermal energy, the navigation of songbirds and a historical Read More
More than 50 small satellites were simultaneously launched into space from French Guyana with the Vega Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) on 2 September 2020. It is the first time that a rocket launch by the European Space Read More
Last year ESA has launched its downstream gateway, a ‘one-stop shop’ administration for every single downstream opportunity to create links among new and rising business and the abilities being created in ESA programs. While ESA Read More
If you know Amsterdam, it will not surprise you to learn that the city has 829 bridges and 205 km of quay walls. That’s a lot of maintenance! At the moment only some 10% is monitored, using Read More
In recent years, Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) has invested millions in innovative work and development of Remote Sensing (RS) technology and services. RS at RWS stands for data collection with various sensors (optical, infrared, laser, radar, etc.), Read More
Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam cooperate in the strategic alliance Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE). This knowledge alliance according to Space Campus Noordwijk can offer open doors in the field of space-related knowledge Read More
Spark plugs for rockets. Simply stated, that is the main product of Aerospace Propulsion Products (APP) of Klundert (Brabant, Netherlands, ed.). Over one hundred Ariane-5 rockets were launched using the ignition system of the Dutch Read More
