An international team of astronomers, including Elisa Costantini (SRON/UvA), has for the first time directly measured how much sulfur occurs in gaseous and solid form in the interstellar medium. This helps to understand how gas clumps together to form stars and planets.
Month: July 2025
Dutch consortium receives funding to support development PRIMA’s far-infrared detector
A Dutch consortium of SRON, TU Delft, NOVA and Veldlaser receives NSO funding to further develop PRIMA’s far-infrared detector. PRIMA is one of the two remaining candidates to become NASA’s Probe mission. SRON’s role is to develop the Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) for the PRIMAger instrument. The consortium will use the funding to push the detectors to a higher level. In space terms: to TRL-6.
Dutch partners start construction of TANGO climate satellite
On July 9, a Dutch consortium of ISISPACE, TNO, SRON and KNMI kicked-off the construction of the Twin Anthropogenic Greenhouse gas Observers (TANGO). This is a satellite system developed by ESA that measures global greenhouse gas emissions of CO2 and methane at source level. TANGO builds on the successful TROPOMI satellite mission.
