News

Gusto in “de Volkskrant” newspaper:

An article on 28th September in de Volkskrant , interviewing Chris Walker and Gao on GUSTO and future balloon missions. See it below

https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/deze-wetenschapper-wil-een-telescoop-aan-een-ballon-de-ruimte-in-sturen-met-hulp-van-nederlandse-ingenieurs~bf2c333a/

TU Delft and SRON have a significant contribution on Gusto.

Our new open access paper just came out:

B. Mirzaei, J. R. G. Silva, D. Hayton, C. Groppi, T. Y. Kao, Q. Hu, J. L. Reno, and J. R. Gao, “8-beam local oscillator array at 4.7 THz generated by a phase grating and a quantum cascade laser,” Opt. Express 25, 29587-29596 (2017)

Towards Alpha Centauri with a spacecraft no larger than a thumbnail (in Dutch)

http://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/met-een-ruimteschip-niet-groter-dan-een-duimnagel-richting-alpha-centauri~a4497260/

Delta Article:

The cooperation leads to numerous citations

Our collaboration with MIT is a good example for this concept. Look at the following link (in Dutch):

Hoe samenwerking leidt tot vele citaties

GUSTO has been selected as NASA science mission

GUSTO has been selected by NASA, targeted for launch in 2021 from McMurdo, Antarctica, and is expected to stay in the air between 100 to 170 days, depending on weather conditions. It will cost approximately $40 million, including the balloon launch funding and the cost of post-launch operations and data analysis. You can see several reports over this great achievement in the following links:

TU Delft betrokken bij NASA-missie (AD)
NASA Selects Mission to Study Churning Chaos in our Milky Way and Beyond (NASA)
NASA chooses Dutch terahertz detectors (DELTA, TU DELFT)
Dutch ‘cameras’ on NASA Science Mission (TU DELFT)
Nederlandse ‘camera’s’ op NASA onderzoeksmissie (SRON)
Nederlandse ‘ogen’ voor NASA-missie (Telegraaf)
Nederlandse detectors op ruimteballon (TW)

Our new paper just came out (open access)

B. Mirzaei, J. R. G. Silva, Y. C. Luo, X. X. Liu, L. Wei, D. J. Hayton, J. R. Gao, and C. Groppi, “Efficiency of multi-beam Fourier phase gratings at 1.4 THz,” Opt. Express 25, 6581-6588 (2017)

STO2 was launched from Antarctica

You can see several reports over this achievement in the following links:

Integraal – Sterrenstof in terahertz

http://delftintegraal.tudelft.nl/article/sterrenstof-terahertz/

Delta – Sterrenstof in terahertz

Delft outlook – Stardust in terahertz

http://delftoutlook.tudelft.nl/article/stardust-terahertz/

News from SRON

TUDelft Space institute STO2 webpage

http://spaceinstitute.tudelft.nl/showcase/sto2-balloon-ride-to-the-edge-of-space/

Huge helium balloon teaches us about the stars ( in Dutch)

http://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/enorme-heliumballon-gaat-ons-leren-over-de-sterren~a4203945/