About us
Innovation in Aerospace & Sustainability
Hands-on hardware experience from satellites to airborne wind energy, applied to your innovation.
Delta-Utec Innovation in Aerospace & Sustainability (IAS) provides support in hardware innovation in aerospace and sustainability, including product development, go-to-market & company growth roadmaps, systems engineering, design and prototyping. We help hardware companies in their growth from TRL2 to TRL7, on technical, business and funding aspects.
Recent customer projects include smallsat development review, fixed-wing drone development, airborne wind energy innovation (roadmap & grant applications), ocean and river cleanup (roadmap), and offshore floating solar project planning. Furthermore, we have a near 100% track record in grant applications (ESA Business Applications, EU Interreg, EIC Accelerator, WBSO, JTF, SSEB).
We also continue the Delta-Utec SRC product line of smallsat solutions, space tether systems, mission simulation and star sensor algorithms.
We draw on a network of experts that has developed 8 satellites and high-tech space experiments since 1994. During this development, and ever since, we have focused on improving our processes and developed and applied powerful and innovative systems engineering and configuration management tools, based on which we can confidently assist you with your challenges.
Expertise
Domains of consulting
- Innovation program strategy, grant application strategy and project planning
- Airborne wind energy & fixed-wing drone development
- Space applications (incl. European Space Agency (ESA) Business Applications, NAVISP, BIC)
- Systems engineering design processes and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)
- Small satellite technologies (incl. re-entry and mission simulation, tether experiments, and star sensor algorithms and test tool)
- Small satellite design reviews
Our people
An international network of engineers
The Delta-Utec team comprises an international network of aerospace systems engineers and hands-on developers, directed by Dr. Michiel Kruijff.
Related links
- Delta-Utec on LinkedIn
- Dr Michiel Kruijff on LinkedIn
- Publications on Academia.edu
- Publications on ResearchGate
- Young Engineers’ Satellite 2 on Wikipedia
- Young Engineers Satellite Builders on Facebook
- Guinness World Record: longest space tether
- Free book: Tethers in Space, a propellantless in-orbit demonstration
- Delta-Utec in the NLSpace directory
Taking a hardware innovation to market?
Tell us where you are on the road from TRL2 to product. We’ll tell you how we can help.