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 …
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 …
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. …
After two years, Peter Hoogeboom’s old temporary NL-RIA logo has been replaced by a brandnew logo, designed by Rens Swart. Consider it as a strong impulse to continue NL-RIA’s activities. We hope you like it!
Recently in a meeting with NSO the possibility of continuing NL-RIA’s radar altimeter development was discussed. The primary aim would be to raise the TRL level of the radar design from currently 2-3 to at least 6. If this is successful we could aim at a space qualified design and …
(click on the title or on “Continue Reading” to see this post in full, including links) Further to the post on Ka-band radar altimeter breadboard for NL-RIA a paper on the subject has been presented by Ozan Dogan to the 2020 IEEE International IOT, Electronics and Mechatronics Conference (IEMTRONICS) and …
On 28 May 2020 a meeting was planned by NSO with the presently active knowledge networks. Unfortunately the meeting had to be postponed for unknown period due to the corona virus. For NL-RIA this would have been a wonderful occasion to demonstrate our progress and good cooperative spirit, slightly more …
