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TU Delft Aerospace Engineering

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TU Delft Aerospace Engineering

Faculty of Aerospace Engineering One of the largest faculties devoted entirely to Aerospace The field of study is extremely broad and exciting.

It is the only unique institute carrying out research and education directly related to aerospace engineering in the Netherlands. Through the years, the Faculty has responded to the increasing demands of the aerospace industry by further expanding its facilities and laboratories. It has also expanded existing aerospace engineering topics to cover important fields such as earth observation and wind

energy. Today the Faculty has a student body of over 2000 undergraduates and graduates, about 250 members of academic staff and 100 PhD students. Around 25% of the student population has a foreign nationality. It is not confined just to the aerospace industry. Besides acquiring the specialist know-how you will also learn to work in teams, to make compromises, to search for solutions to complex problems and to communicate effectively. The degree programme in Aerospace Engineering is the only one at TU Delft to offer a complete English-language Bachelor’s degree programme.

26/05/2026

🎉Congrats to the incredible students for their successful ground tests with their hydrogen aircraft last week at Rotterdam The Hague Airport!✈️

They carried out the first taxi tests of a hydrogen-powered aircraft at an operational airport in the Netherlands. During the test campaign the team were able to refuel gaseous hydrogen, test the aircraft’s propulsion system and complete their first (and second!) taxi run.

We are very proud of them and happy to be able to support them in their journey. Just think:

✈️ These students do not just design a hydrogen plane behind their laptops. They have the guts to actually build one and test it at a real airport, learning to deal with all the safety and operations restrictions. These tests are very valuable to develop the right hydrogen technology for aviation, but also help shape how to set up a safe and functional hydrogen infrastructure at airports.

✈️ The team members do this in their own time, because they’re on a mission to prove and promote liquid hydrogen as a sustainable alternative to conventional fuels in aviation. In the process, they learn to organize themselves, work and communicate together, and involve partners and sponsors. These are the kind of students who don’t think twice about working through the night to fix something in time to do the test. Their dedication goes far beyond their curriculum.

🔜 Stay tuned because we can expect much more from the team. Next steps: flying the aircraft on gaseous hydrogen and developing a safe storage tank for liquid hydrogen.

19/05/2026

🐝 researchers Guido De Croon, Dequan Ou and Christophe De Wagter have developed “Bee-Nav”, a honeybee-inspired navigation strategy that enables even very small robots to travel long distances and reliably return home using a neural memory of just 42 kilobytes. In a new environment, the robot first performs a short learning flight near home, just as honeybees do. After that, it can travel away for hundreds of meters and still find its way back. The results of their research have just been published in .

“We were fascinated by the fact that honeybees can fly far away from home along winding paths, yet return almost straight back,” says Professor of Bio-inspired AI for drones Guido De Croon. “Biologists have shown that bees rely on odometry for the return journey, and use visual memory more as they get closer to home. But exactly what and how they learn for their visual memory is still not fully understood. That was the gap we needed to bridge to create a practical navigation strategy for robots.”

In Bee-Nav, the robot also first makes a short learning flight near home. During that flight, it collects panoramic images of the environment. A small neural network then learns to process those images for estimating the direction and distance back home.

“Like an insect, the robot may not always know exactly where home is,” says PhD candidate Dequan Ou. “Home may be too small to see, or hidden behind some trees. So we trained the neural network using odometry estimates of the direction and distance home, even though these become less accurate over time. The key question was whether that would still be enough for the robot to learn to return home.”

Turns out, it was. Odometry drift did not prevent successful visual homing. Using a neural network of just 3.4 kilobytes, the robot interpreted panoramic images of its surroundings and estimated which way to move and how far it still was from home. The estimated distance allowed the robot to move faster when farther away and slower as it approached home. In all flights, the robot successfully returned home.

Read more about their research on our website!

17/04/2026

TU Delft researchers have taken their research beyond the simulator and into the air, conducting the first in-flight tests of touchscreen operation in the TU Delft’s research aircraft .

The team is investigating ‘biodynamic feedthrough’: unintentional movement of the pilot’s hand caused by flight manoeuvres and turbulence, which makes it difficult to operate touchscreens and can lead to dangerous situations.

🔬 By combining real-flight data with earlier simulator research in SIMONA, the project aims to develop smart models that can predict and correct these movements, improving the safety and reliability of touchscreens in aircraft, cars and ships.

This work is part of the -funded project and was carried out by researchers Daan Pool and Max McKenzie in collaboration with test pilots and technical staff, bridging simulation and real-world validation.

🚀 Next steps include testing prototype touchscreens in the PH-LAB research aircraft, as well as in real cars and ships. The team at is working on restoring haptic feedback to touchscreens so that the screens once again provide a genuine sense of ‘touch’, just like physical buttons do.

Read more about the research on our website!

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13/04/2026

We caught these little ducklings exploring campus and stealing our hearts along the way 🐥🤎

If you need a break from exam week, come by to enjoy a moment like this ✨

09/04/2026

Who will be joining these inspiring ladies? 🚀 The application for the IAWA scholarship 2026 is now open! Female BSc and MSc aerospace engineering students are invited to apply by 24 May, 2026. ⁠⁠

A word from last year's scholarship winner, Anna Moscati: ⁠⁠

“Winning the IAWA scholarship is an incredible honor. It reminds me why I chose aerospace: to be part of something bigger, to explore, to innovate, and to contribute in my own way. As a woman in this field, I’m not here to fit in, I’m here to grow, to lead, and to help break boundaries for those who come next. It reminds me how important it is to keep going, and to keep showing that women belong in every part of this industry.”⁠

Check our website for more information and how to apply: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ae/current/iawa-scholarship. Spread the word to fellow students! ⁠⁠

09/04/2026

April 8 at 3:35 in the morning, on the rooftop of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, AETUDelft researcher Marco Langbroek captured a remarkable moment in space. Despite challenging conditions: twilight, a low horizon, and the Moon nearby, he decided to give it a try, encouraged by Rudolf Saathof.

Using the new 41.5-cm MISO telescope, he imaged the Artemis II spacecraft on its way back from the Moon nearly 359,000 km away. What you see: a faint moving dot between the stars, captured in four 10-second exposures over 1.5 minutes.

Originally designed to study atmospheric effects on laser communication, the telescope shows it can do more. Capturing objects beyond GEO hints at future possibilities for optical communication with deep-space missions.

A great catch, especially under these conditions. Thanks Marco!

🎥 video Artemis II + MISO telescope & observatory photos

12/03/2026

Congratulations to graduated student Giulia Leto for receiving the “2025 Modeling and Simulation Technologies Best Paper Award” from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics () 🚀👏

The paper, titled “Effects of Turbulence Intensity and Variability on Biodynamic Feedthrough Modeling in Touchscreen Dragging Tasks”, was presented at the AIAA SciTech Forum 2025 in Orlando.

The research explores how turbulence affects human interaction with touchscreen systems, an increasingly relevant topic as digital interfaces become more common in aviation and vehicles.

Daan Pool supervised her work during her MSc. Today, Giulia is continuing her journey at TU Delft as a Ph.D. candidate in Air Traffic Management, where she focuses on air traffic control and the application of AI to future aviation systems.

26/01/2026

Last week of is here...almost done! 🔥📚 Good luck to all our students 🍀

How are your exams going so far?

19/01/2026

The Delft-based start-up is working on a sustainable revolution in spaceflight. What began as a student project has grown into an international company with 120 employees in Delft, Christchurch, Toulouse and New York. Dawn develops propulsion systems for satellites and a reusable spaceplane designed to launch satellites into orbit.

Co-founder Jeroen Wink explains how it all began, why the company partly operates from New Zealand, and how Europe can, in his view, become more strategic.

Read the story via the

This story is a publication from Pioneering Tech, written by Elise Spetter. 📸 credits: Dawn Aerospace

07/01/2026

Sunshine, fresh snow, and a few unexpected snowy creatures around the faculty ❄️☀️
Wishing everyone a wonderful start to 2026. Campus never looks quite the same in winter, enjoy the winter magic!

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