Post authored by Christian Trampuz, TNO The Hague. The seeds planted in the Dutch space ecosystem by NSO and NWO with the SwarmSAR phase 0 mission concept definition start giving the first shoots. Watered by the Dutch Ministry of Defence and thanks to the fertility of the Dutch technology infrastructure, …
In 2022 at the end of the initial NSO funding of NL-RIA a radar test board had been developed by our partner Rfx, for details see this post. The NL-RIA Alticube project that was kicked of in December 2023 gave the opportunity to finalize this test board and test it. …
Following the post on the Alticube+ study for the ESA OSIP call on CubeSat swarms based instruments, things became particularly exciting at the end of April 2024. Alticube+ was one of the 7 projects that were selected by ESA from 74 ideas to perform a short design study. In a …
In autumn 2023 the ESA OSIP project “Alticube+ – An Aggregated CubeSats Swarm for Long Fixed-baseline Radar Altimetry” started as one of the seven studies selected from around 70 proposals. OSIP stands for Open Space Innovation Platform. This program offers the exploration of new ideas and may lead to activities …
