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On Monday 6 September, 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 10 stamps artistically show that innovations from Delft can be found in a wide range of fields.

On 30 June, the first Dutch military nanosatellite was launched from the Mojave Desert in the United States. The nanosatellite BRIK II was brought into orbit by the company Virgin Orbit.

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.