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The NRC of 23 June2021 contained an article claiming that the aviation sector cannot innovate its way out of the climate crisis (‘De luchtvaart kan zich niet uit de klimaatcrisis innoveren’). The article was written in response to a factsheet and presentation that two scientists gave to the Dutch House of Representatives. The scientists paint an honest picture, but we do not share the conclusion that the journalist came to. On the contrary: with faster and more radical innovation the aviation sector can be made climate neutral by 2050.

Lunar Zebro, an ambitious team at TU Delft will work together with TNO (The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research) to build the lightest and smallest Moon rover to date.

An intense two year test campaign on aerospace composite structures at the Aerospace Structures & Materials Laboratory of Aerospace Engineering Faculty of the TU Delft (NL) and at the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics of University of Patras (GR) has resulted in a unique Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Database.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected the Venus orbiter EnVision as the fifth medium-class mission within its Cosmic Vision program. It marks the beginning of a new era of Venus exploration—last week NASA already announced two new missions to Earth' sister planet. SRON and TU Delft are part of the EnVision consortium.

Recently, the Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Structures was established at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

On Thursday 3 June, the Delft University Fund awarded Max Mulder the title of Professor of Excellence 2021. Mulder is Professor of Control & Simulation in the Department of Control & Operations at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (AE).

The Executive Board has reappointed Professor Henri Werij as Dean of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (AE). Werij took office as dean on June 1, 2017 and will begin a second four-year term on June 1 next.

The experts of The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft have authored this new online course to share the current and future developments and strategies to achieve climate-neutral aviation with learners of various backgrounds (and not only technical ones).

Why are CO2 emissions from flying increasing while aircraft are becoming more fuel efficient? What would be a logical distance to fly on a battery-powered electric plane? In what ways can you fly on hydrogen? The Netherlands Aerospace Centre (Royal NLR) and TU Delft have answered these and other pressing questions about sustainable aviation by setting out the facts in the fact sheet 'Sustainable Alternatives to Kerosene'.

Horizon 2020 project SUSTAINair was launched recently to research and develop solutions to increase resource efficiency and aircraft performance while cutting down on waste and material costs throughout the aircraft life cycle, what is known as circular aviation.