Picometre metrology in space

Electronics Mechanics
Mikroniek 3 2008 by Ellart Meijer and Fred Kamphues 30 December 2008

The Gaia mission will create an ultra-precise three-dimensional map of about one billion stars in our Galaxy. Part of ESA’s Cosmic Vision program, the Gaia spacecraft is being built by EADS Astrium and is scheduled for launch in 2011. TNO is developing a picometre metrology system– the Basic Angle Monitoring Opto-Mechanical Assembly (BAM OMA) – for this mission.

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Lunch Lecture January hosted by…

The title is: Frame deformations control based on reduced order thermo-elastic models

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Company visit YPN at Settels…

Our next company visit has been confirmed and will take place at Settels Savenije, located in Eindhoven, on Tuesday 17th of December. A perfect opportunity for networking just before Christmas.

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Jan-Pieter Rijstenbil (TU Eindhoven) receives…

Prize for careful process analysis and early validation. During the 23rd edition of the Precision Fair in Den Bosch (NL), the Wim van der Hoek Award was presented under the auspices of DSPE (Dutch Society for Precision Engineering).

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