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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](4 April 2014) Sentinel-1A satellite was launched yesterday from the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. While entering into its low earth-orbit, both solar-array wings were successfully deployed and directed to face towards the sun.

On April 3rd Airborne announced the set up of a legal presence in Cherbourg, France. This will take Airborne a step further in achieving the ambition to become the leading tidal blade engineering and manufacturing company in the world. Airborne strongly believes that a local facility supporting the tidal energy projects of for example Tidalys

In their efforts to stimulate economic growth, Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs is implementing new regulations to support ambitious companies to grow. Airborne was mentioned in Minister Henk Kamp’s letter to the Second Chamber that displays inspiring examples of ambitious companies with grow potential. Read the full report here and the news item here (Dutch only)

On 11 March 2014, Airborne Technology Centre and NLR signed a contract at the JEC Composites exhibition in Paris for opening an Airborne branch on the NLR premises and to intensify research cooperation. Dutch Minister Kamp of Economic Affairs visited the JEC as representative of the Netherlands and was present to witness the signing of

Airbus, Airborne, Fokker, TenCate and the other partners in the Dutch aerospace industry have signed the contract for the second Thermoplastic Affordable Primary Aircraft Structure (TAPAS2) project on January 21st, 2014. This project further builds on the first TAPAS project, and is a highly successful partnership for project-based innovation. The TAPAS consortium consists of companies

Nautricity Ltd., the Scottish based, next generation tidal device developer, is in the process of deploying their CoRMat tidal turbine at the world’s largest wave and tidal test centre, EMEC (the Orkneys). During the first half of 2013, the unique Hydro-Buoy system was tested, analysed and optimised. Also, the full scale CoRMaT Turbine, fitted with

Earlier this year, the Tocardo T100 turbine was tested in real life conditions in the Waddenzee, The Netherlands. Airborne Marine engineered and manufactured the blades for Tocardo’s T100 turbine. As expected, both the T100 turbine and composite blades demonstrated excellent performance. Reliability is of primary concern for both Tocardo and Airborne Marine, which has resulted

Within current composite part development and manufacturing processes, a disproportionally high effort is absorbed by finding optimal process parameters and meeting required qualities and tolerances of high performance light weight structures. In order to reduce the efforts in these processes, the European ECOMISE project is working on a breakthrough production system to enable next generation

The Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO/NL) responsible for innovative new solutions for the Dutch Ministry of Defence and Navy, recently initiated the re-mounting of the composite propeller blades made by Airborne Marine.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Early 2013 Airborne signed a contract with Astrium in Ottobrun Germany for the manufacturing of solar panels for a new Earth observation satellite for an Asian end customer. The production started in March and the first batch of four panels was delivered to Astrium in June, according to plan and to satisfaction of the customer.