Development and operations in the Dutch utilisation centre

At the early beginning (1989) of implementation of the European User Support Organisation (USO) concept, development and implementation of a Dutch Utilisation Centre (DUC) started at NLR premises. After development of several pilot DUC facilities, DUC participated in a Columbus simulation mission and in the 2nd International Micro-gravity...

"Space for the user": DUC in the Netherlands

As a result of the ESA-USO study, the Netherlands initiated the development of a Dutch National User Support Organisation in 1989. In the past years the development went forward, involving Dutch industries, Dutch users, Dutch national agencies and the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, The Netherlands. The latter acting as manager and...