Innovative off-road astronomy

Aurora Summer Event – the Netherlands
14th July 2018
Fly me to the Moon – Theater show
30th September 2018
Aurora Summer Event – the Netherlands
14th July 2018
Fly me to the Moon – Theater show
30th September 2018

ESAC is ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre, located near Madrid in Spain, and the obvious place for an innovative car company to ask what would be the ideal car for mobile astronomy. Fortunately the request was answered with significant input from Aurora’s Wouter van Reeven who is a professional software engineer working on Gaia and also a very keen and experienced astronomer.

Wouter had recently purchased a large estate car to allow him to travel to remote dark locations to observe the stars in central Spain, allowing him to provide Nissan with first hand experience on moving around telescopes. Nissan have produced an amazing portable observatory and invited Wouter to England and Wales to not only assist in its first light observations but also to appear in the promotional movie of the mobile observatory concept car. Wouter provided significant experience in using a sizeable telescope and really enjoyed the experience in helping in this state of the art innovation. Wouter will continue to promote astronomy both as president of the ESAC Astronomy Club and with groups coming to visit him from his native land, The Netherlands.

We highly recommend spend a couple of minutes to view the innovation and star gazing including Wouter by clcking on the image below.

You can read more about the project at ESA news Going off-road in the search for dark skies

 

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Aurora at a glance

Aurora Technology is a space consultancy and services provider combining experience and innovation.

Aurora's core business activity is the provision of support for engineering and scientific services to the Space industry. We provide top-notch profiles to bring in your team the needed experience to successfully help and support your projects.

Our Areas of Activity are Earth observation, telecommunications, navigation constellations, interplanetary and astronomical missions, manned space missions, facility management, education & communication. We have been supporting a large array of missions since 1995.

Aurora is part of the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) Group, who is a leading full-service supplier of state-of-the-art space engineering, satellite and launch services to commercial and institutional customers worldwide. Some of our Group’s customers: Eumetsat, DLR, Airbus, NASA, ASI, Cnes, JAXA, and more…
As part of the Engineering Services Division of SSC, Aurora's main customer is the European Space Agency, with a focus on supporting the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands and the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Spain.

Delivery Models

We know how hard is to find specialists in engineering and scientific domains. That’s why our consultancy services are capable to deliver to your organization the right skill set with 3 different types of Delivery Models: 1) Onsite Support @Client's premises; 2) Onsite Service with Deliverables and KPI; 3) Offsite Service @Aurora Offices.

We can offer a wide range of skillsets, which covers the entire space product development life cycle.
The expertise we can provide in our Service & Support Portfolio spans from Preliminary Phase 0/A (conceptual mission design) to Phase F (mission operations, maintenance, and disposal).

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Aurora is a company based on people as our key of success to be an excellence in the market. We encourage all Aurora employees to reach their full professional potential to enable our customers achieve their best results.

Joining out team, you will work with talented experts, contributing to top-level projects, challenging missions, and innovative technologies in the space industry. We offer exciting work, responsibility, a pleasant environment, and excellent remuneration + benefits.

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