ATG Europe joins NL-RIA network
On 25 March 2025 ATG Europe joined the NL-RIA knowledge network. Contact person is Michiel Vullings. See the page on partner expertises for a short description of ATG Europe’s expertise.
SwarmSAR enters the next phase towards space
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, …
Experimental radar test board development for Ka-band altimeter successfully concluded.
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. …
Alticube+ winner of the ESA SysNova Challenge on CubeSat Swarms
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 …
ESA-OSIP Alticube+ project in its final stage!
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 …
Kick-off for NL-RIA Alticube project
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 …
A successful Radar Altimetry shortcourse
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 …
Robin Radar Systems is 19th member of NL-RIA
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 …
Alticube proposal submitted
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 …
Introduction course to small satellites
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 …