Teamworking towards next generation telescopes
Watch as Kenichiro Nagayoshi and Marcel Ridder and their colleagues make detectors for the Athena X-ray telescope. In 2031, ESA launches its new X-ray telescope Athena. SRON plays a major role in building one of the two instruments, the X-IFU spectrometer, by...
Working as an instrument maker for space research
Take a look at our mechanical workshop in Groningen. Jarno Panman has been a precision instrument maker for SRON since 2002. His work and that of his colleagues consists of making hardware components. For example, for (cryogenic) test set-ups for experiments that push...
‘You can stay involved from start to launch’
“The reason I came to work at SRON is that I was looking for a job in which I can remain involved in what I design from start to finish. I used to be in chip manufacturing and my work involved only a small part, just a smaller phase in making something bigger....