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 …
On December 14, 2023 a new NL-RIA project was kicked off, entitled “AltiCube – A Dutch CubeSat radar altimetry instrument”. The proposal for this work was approved by NSO after a positive peer review. In an earlier post “Alticube proposal submitted” some details about the project goal were explained. The …
Peter Hoogeboom, emeritus professor Radar Remote Sensing of TU Delft gave a shortcourse on radar altimetry to those who were interested and involved in NL-RIA’s activities to realize a constellation of cubesat-based radar altimeters. The course started off with the properties and operating principles of altimeters and gradually deepened into …
On 30 March 2023 Robin Radar Systems joined the NL-RIA knowledge network. Contact person is Silvester Heijnen. Robin Radar Systems builds advanced bird and drone detection radars delivering processed information in real time thanks to a high level of digital processing and control. Now, they plan to step into the …
In order to develop the TRL level of NL-RIA’s miniature radar altimeter a proposal entitled “AltiCube – A Dutch CubeSat radar altimetry instrument” has been submitted to NSO by TU Delft, Swartvast, Robin radar and ISISpace. RFx solutions and TNO Defence and Security will be subcontracted in the course of …
Robin radar is a newcomer in the world of spaceborne radar. Due to their possible involvement in the realization of new radar hardware for cubesat style satellites, a short introductory course on small satellites was given by Dr. Jian Guo of TU Delft during a preparatory meeting. Several NL-RIA members …
On 23 November 2022 KNMI joined the NL-RIA knowledge network. Contact person is Ad Stoffelen. Together with colleagues he performs scientific research on the use and performance of spaceborne radar instruments, including windscatterometers and altimeters. KNMI’s membership brings in expertise in this field, which strengthens the user side of NL-RIA. …
Recently NL-RIA’s partner RFx solutions managed to realize the first radarboard for the 35 GHz miniaturized altimeter. The design is based on work from Ozan Doğan, during his post-doc assignment. The development was sincerely delayed by Covid-19 and by the worldwide shortages in chips. But after a long period of …
