says research instrument maker and assembler of flight hardware Sander van Loon. He has been making hardware for use in space at SRON since 2011. “That’s unique, that’s how I live my instrument maker’s dream. But once it’s launched, we can’t reach it anymore”.
“It has to be perfect”, says research instrument maker and assembler of flight hardware Sander van Loon. He has been making hardware for use in space at SRON since 2011. “That’s unique, that’s how I live my instrument maker’s dream. But once it’s launched, we can’t reach it anymore”.
That’s why the quality controller since December 2018, Nathalie Gorter, has been examining Sander’s work. “I want to understand why things break down, and when, under what circumstances. I like to look for the anomaly,” she says. “We guarantee that hardware does what it is supposed to do during its lifetime,” she says.
