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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.

On Tuesday March 2, Marie Fayolle won the fourth Heinz Stoewer Space Award for her MSc thesis entitled “Geodetic parameter estimation for small-satellite small-body mission”. This year, Prof. Heinz Stoewer himself handed over the prize to Marie Fayolle at the VSV Symposium 2021.

TU Delft researchers and 20 partners will develop reliable and safe wireless broadband connections using light instead of radio waves. They anticipate that this technology will allow us to securely send and process digital data at high speeds, with low latency. For this research project, the team has been awarded €4.1 million from the Dutch Research Council’s (NWO) Perspectief programme. TU Delft is also participating in the other five consortia that received Perspectief funding.

Will your ambulance or taxi arrive by air in the future? If you live in a heavily urbanised area, this may very well the case. Urban Air Mobility can be an attractive solution for reliable transport in heavily congested areas. From 15 to 17 March 2021 TU Delft hosts the first (online) Delft International Conference on Urban Air Mobility.

Recently, a signal was picked up from the Delfi-n3Xt, the satellite of the TU Delft with which contact was lost in 2014.

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has elected Chiara Bisagni, Professor of Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the TU Delft, as one of the Fellows in the Class of 2021 Honorary Fellows and Fellows.

TU Delft, NOC*NSF, KNSB and Innovation Lab Thialf have been using the Ring of Fire measuring system to analyse top Dutch speed skaters. The measuring system was used last week in Heerenveen to measure and visualise the air resistance around a moving skater.

In the white paper published today NLR - Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre and Delft University of Technology present their joint vision on the most promising technologies for achieving a climate neutral air transport system by 2050.