The menu at the left shows EXOPLANETS missions (and instruments and demonstrators) with SRON involvement. For each a brief description is given of the science goals and technology involved, with links to further info. INTRO EXOPLANETS PROGRAMME Go to
Category: MISSIONS
Missions & instruments Earth
The menu at the left shows EARTH missions (and instruments and demonstrators) with SRON involvement. For each a brief description is given of the science goals and technology involved, with links to further info. INTRO EARTH PROGRAMME Go to
Missions & instruments Astrophysics
The menu at the left shows ASTROPHYSICS missions (and instruments and demonstrators) with SRON involvement. For each a brief description is given of the science goals and technology involved, with links to further info. INTRO ASTROPHYSICS PROGRAMME Go to
TANGO
The Twin ANthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Observers (TANGO) mission is a pioneering satellite mission comprising two satellites, TANGO-Carbon and TANGO-Nitro. TANGO will monitor and quantify emissions of the greenhouse gases methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) at the level of individual industrial facilities and power plants. SRON and KNMI have the scientific lead. Jochen Landgraf …
HUBS
The Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) is a proposed X-ray space mission in China and is in the advanced stage of assessment at the China National Space Administration (CNSA). It is envisioned to be in operation around 2030. HUBS is designed to be a dedicated probe of tenuous hot gas in the large-scale structures or …
XRISM / Resolve
Artist impression of the XRISM satellite. Credit: JAXA. The SRON team behind the development of XRISM’s filter wheel, filters and calibration system. Filter wheel The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) is a space telescope from the Japanese space agency JAXA. It was launched on September 7th 2023. XRISM replaces the Hitomi telescope which lost …
ACEPOL (Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeters and Lidar)
ACEPOL-campagne team voor het ER-2 toestel, inclusief piloot Stuart ‘Stu’ Broce, bij NASA Armstrong airbase, California Dit project was een initiatief van SRON-onderzoeker Otto Hasekamp en is gerealiseerd met subsidie van NWO vanuit het Programma Gebruikersondersteuning Ruimteonderzoek. Het hoofddoel van de ACEPOL-campagne was om de capaciteiten te vergelijken van verschillende polarimeters voor het bepalen …
PACE / SPEXone
The NASA observatory PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud and ocean Ecosystem) will study various factors that affect the Earth’s climate. PACE will have three scientific instruments: the ocean color instrument OCI, aerosol polarimeter SPEXone and cloud polarimeter HARP-2. PACE is scheduled for launch in January 2024. Artist’s impression PACE satelliet Credit: NASA/GSFC Instrumenten op de PACE …
LISA
The year 2015 saw the dawn of a new messenger from the cosmos: gravitational waves (GWs). This accelerated the further development of GW detectors on the ground. However, these can only measure GWs of wavelength of order 10-103 km. One needs to go to space for detecting GWs of (much) larger wavelength of which there should …
Aerosol missions
Aerosol research at SRON focuses on the use of instruments that measure both the intensity and polarization of light reflected by the Earth’s atmosphere and surface at different wavelengths and viewed under different angles. The POLDER instruments of the French Space Agency CNES have been the only satellite instruments that have provided this type of …
