On 1 October 2013, the National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands (NLR) held a symposium on NLR’s new four-year Selective Laser Melting (SLM) programme. SLM is an additive manufacturing process that uses three-dimensional CAD data to create metal parts, and […]
Author Archive for: Rachelle
Entries by Rachelle Meijer
The French Ministry of Higher Education & Research has recently awarded the so-called CIR accreditation (Crédit d’Impôt Recherche) to the National Aerospace Laboratory-NLR. The Ministry awards this recognition to institutes and organizations with proven R&D capabilities. The CIR accreditation is aimed […]
Recently a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between CEGIS from Bangladesh and NLR. Intention of the MoU is to pursue scientific and technical cooperation related to space technology and derived applications, spatial information applications and data management strategies, as […]
On Friday 27 September Professor Henk Blom, Professor of Air Traffic Management Safety at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, will deliver his inaugural address titled: More flights: that calls for new ways of Air Traffic Management – How do we […]
On 19 September Norway and the Netherlands signed a Technical Arrangement on “Military Use of Space”. Together the Norwegian and Dutch Ministries of Defence prepared the Technical Arrangement called “Strategic Mutual Assistance in Research & Technology” (SMART). NLR, TNO and the Norwegian Defence […]
HIKARI (which means ‘light’ in Japanese) aims at pursuing and bringing one step further the cooperation between Europe and Japan in the field of high speed transport (HST).The primary output from HIKARI will be technology roadmaps relying on synergies between […]
Recently, the National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands (NLR) and Dutch SMEs Airborne and Polyworx decided to  cooperate intensively with each other over the coming three years with a view to substantially improving the price/performance ratio of composite products. The […]
In the spring of 2013, the National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands (NLR) kicked off a wide-ranging programme aimed at significantly improving the efficiency of airport operations. Quicker detection of frequently occurring disruptions should make it easier to anticipate problems, […]
The National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands (NLR) has installed a new projection system and supporting software to significantly enhance the level of realism offered by its Generic Research Aircraft Cockpit Environment (GRACE). The WIDE VISUAL upgrade allows for the […]