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Chinese space company HEAD Aerospace sets up office in SBIC
HEAD Aerospace Technology Co., headquartered in Beijing, China, has opened its new Dutch office in Noordwijk, making it the first private company from the Chinese space industry to set up business in The Netherlands. In the presence of officials from the company and...
Angel investment in JOHAN Sports
SBIC Participations announced this morning that they will invest in JOHAN Sports. Via this investment JOHAN Sports expects to accelerate its growth ambitions, to develop their tracking and analysis system further. The first investment from SBIC Participations was...
JOHAN Sports goes live
JOHAN Sports offers the first affordable and usable tracking system for field sports on the global sports market. Every player wears a small, light and robust device to track their location, speed, distance travelled and accelerations. This measured data is visualised...
Lens R&D well on schedule
Nearing the end of its incubation period at ESA BIC in Noordwijk, Lens R&D is nicely on schedule to meet all targets originally defined in their incubation contract. With the production of the first BiSon 6 Solar Sensors for concentrated photovoltaic applications,...
Anti-spoofing GNSS receiver wins ESNC Netherlands challenge
SBIC Noordwijk congratulates Willem Folkers with winning the regional ESNC The Netherlands challenge with his idea: Anti-Spoofing GNSS Receiver. The winning idea comprises of hardware and an operational concept. The hardware will contain a small module with an...
Cheetah wins ESA App Challenge
SBIC Noordwijk congratulates Cheetah with winning the ESA App Challenge 2013. Cheetah obtains crop-sourcing information from Copernicus Sentinel-2 (and MERIS) on land coverage and crop phenology products. Market price information is partly crowd-sourced and augments...
