Jasper de Hoog

[Airborne @Airborne_com]

VIDEO: #Airborne - Shaping the composites value chain of tomorrow. Want to know how #advanced #composites are the answer to your challenges, and how to produce them in a #MassCustomisation and affordable way? Watch our vision! https://t.co/MU8qznSEDD

[Airborne @Airborne_com]

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[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

Uniquely happening now: all three BlackGEM Phase 1 telescopes have been assembled and tested on the temporary mount!

[Airborne @Airborne_com]

PRESS RELEASE - GKN Fokker Launching Customer for Airborne’s Automated Kitting solution: We are very proud to announce the implementation of our #Automated #Kitting solution at GKN Fokker by mid-2019. @GKNAero @Fokker

#Airborne #Composites #Automation https://t.co/aTJaSLDrJC

[Airborne @Airborne_com]

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together? What a great show @ceshow 2018! Last day to see our Automated Kitting Solution LIVE at Stuttgart! Can't make it? Schedule your appointment through our website: https://t.co/X0n1Yc9zWJ

[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

Initial lab collimation complete! The famous Rik ter Horst laser test

[MeerLICHT Telescope @MeerLICHT_ZA]

@BlackGEM_Array Go sister!!

[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

Lift off!!! Or as we say with ground-based telescopes: first light! With thanks to @univgroningen and @groningen for switching off some street lights for us. @RUastro @Radboud_Uni @AstronomieNL @IvS_KULeuven

[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

Waiting for the sky to darken over Groningen...

[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

Word is that the optical quality is excellent! Here's the first recorded image: Polaris.

[Jasper de Hoog @deHoogJasper]

Great following and seeing the progress on BlackGEM Array

[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

Almost ready for first light optical tests in the Netherlands. Instead of the CCD camera a Canon camera will be attached for fast viewing and filming. As soon as the rain stops!

[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

The first telescope nearing integration of all the optical components by @MarielleBekema and company in the @KapteynDirector lab of NOVA. First light Europe not long now! @RUastro

[Airborne @Airborne_com]

Carbon Fiber Can Store Energy In The Body Of A Vehicle - Vehicles with a large part of the car-body or aeroplane-fuselage of structural lithium ion batteries? This study by @chalmersnyheter talks of new opportunities for structural batteries. Interesting! https://t.co/DEMKs4kAfK

[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

Ready for a couple of mirrors...

[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

The 2nd and 3rd BlackGEM lens barrels fully assembled at the NOVA lab in Groningen

[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

Gert Raskin of @KU_Leuven IvS with the next batch of BlackGEM cryostats.

[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

The corrector lenses being assembled

[BlackGEM Array @BlackGEM_Array]

First assembled lens barrel completed

[Airborne @Airborne_com]

“Some of these inserts are heavy loaded (more than 200kg on a M5 insert)…” Our very own Alwin van der Pijl on delivering solar panels to SpaceTech GmbH #SpaceTechGmbH #NLSpace #solarpanels #IAC2018 https://t.co/hJbcT8s0Y6

[Chris van der Haagen @cvdhaagen]

Whatever you want to say about Elon and SpaceX they change the rules of the game. One launch every month, landing on designated chosen pads, challenging cost structures etc. etc. https://t.co/g5tkvq4GRw