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Timothy Shimwell is the lead author on the LoTSS data release and is affiliated with ASTRON and Leiden University.
LOFAR originated from an ASTRON project and is now organized as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).
Timothy Shimwell is the first author of the LoTSS-DR3 study and is a researcher at ASTRON and Leiden University.
Astron Stone has compatible rocket AS-1.
Astron put in a bid for the European Launcher Challenge (ELC) and received broadly positive feedback from ESA regarding its commercial potential.
Astron intends to bring back up to 100 kg of payload from orbit with Aurora.
Astron was unable to meet the 2027 demonstration timeline required by the ELC.
Astron’s manifest includes four commercial flights between 2028 and 2030, totaling a few hundred kilos of available payload capacity.
Astron will continue building its launch vehicle with hopes that private capital can facilitate further ESA grants.
Astron was founded in 2021 by aerospace propulsion engineers Eddie Brown, Kieran Jones-Tett, and Rafal Sokolowski.
Astron plans to test Aurora's tactical launch capability with Shield Space.
Astron aims to drastically reduce the cost to orbit using a reusable small-lift launch vehicle called Aurora.
Albert-Jan Boonstra from ASTRON remarked that the deployment of the antennas is a unique technology demonstrator for future radio-astronomy instruments in space.
The Netherlands-China Low-Frequency Explorer was developed by Radboud University, ASTRON, and ISISpace with support from the Netherlands Space Office.