Author name: Monique Timmermans

Responsive collaborative small satellite constellations for dedicated applications
Space Technology

25 January 2024

Space as critical infrastructure

Not a luxury, but a necessity: the Dutch aerospace industry is pushing for a long-term aerospace agenda. A good initiative for further innovation and substantial investment to maintain and strengthen its competitive position. Aerospace technologies help solve many societal, scientific and economic challenges. Whether it concerns monitoring climate change, ensuring social safety or providing communication […]
ATILLA tiltrotor
Platform System Design

08 January 2024

Testing the complexity of a tiltrotor

The next generation of rotary-wing platforms is being developed to meet the challenges of civil mobility demands, providing increased speed, range and productivity to bridge the gap between conventional helicopters and fixed-wing platforms. The novelty and increased complexity of these platforms demand a great deal of testing. This is where the ATILLA project comes into […]
Space Technology

11 December 2023

R&D case: Advanced payload control and onboard data processing

The challenge Current SmallSat avionics are not suitable for commercial SmallSat missions. The challenge is here to get to a solution with a proper balance between size, versatility, reliability, robustness to the space environment and cost effectiveness. A solution using space qualified parts is too expensive and bulky and a solution based on commercially off […]
Space Technology

11 November 2023

Brochure: Space applications the miniMPL, cooling for CubeSats

The Multi Parallel Micro Pump consists of a stack of several micro pumps, which consists each of a piezo membrane and a valve to direct the flow. The prime functionality lies in the flexibility the current solution offers: if a higher flow is needed, more pumps can be added to be able to deliver that […]
Platform Technology

02 November 2023

Brochure: Environmental testing of aerospace equipment

With our wide range of test facilities we can simulate your environmental testing requirements for your spacecraft or aircraft equipment, meeting international, military, aircraft and commercial standards.Regardless of the environment that has to be simulated, NLR is the ‘one stop shop’ for all your testing needs. We will conduct your environmental tests for climatic, thermal […]
NLR People - Jos Vankan

12 July 2023

NLR People: Jos VanKan, making it work for sustainable aviation

In the series ‘NLR People’, we show you who the experts at the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre are, what drives them, and what they are working on behind the scenes.In this first episode: Jos Vankan, principal scientist at the Collaborative Engineering Systems department. Making it work: sustainable aviation Jos Vankan is a principal scientist at […]
SFD mission flight Italy - Taranto-Grottaglie Airport
Flight Operations and Certification

28 November 2022

How to accelerate development for future aircraft

Aviation needs to become more sustainable and the requirements for that include innovative aircraft models and alternative means of propulsion. To accelerate those developments, Royal NLR is working with Airbus and the Italian and French knowledge institutes CIRA and ONERA to investigate the potential of scale models that mimic the dynamic movements of full-size aircraft.  […]

28 September 2022

New Supervisory Board

The composition of the Supervisory Board was changed in September. This changing of the guard has led to greater diversity in the composition of the Board. The Board is the supervisory body of Royal NLR. Its members provide advice and monitor the work of the day-to-day executive. Since 21 September 2022, the Board has had a new composition […]
NLR Hybrid Electric Plane
Sustainability and Environment

15 June 2022

Progress in ‘Smart and Sustainable’

Twenty transport organisations and centres of expertise published an action plan together in 2018 for reducing CO2 emissions in aviation entitled ‘Slim én duurzaam’ (Smart and Sustainable). This was followed by two addenda giving a picture of the activities and the results achieved. A third update has been made available today reflecting the current state […]