"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...

A remote user support pilot experiment for Anthrorack during spacelab D-2

During the D-2 mission an opportunity exists to execute a pilot experiment concerning distributed scientific user support for Anthrorack. A Dutch scientist will act as co-Investigator at GSOC and will get remote support from another scientist at NLR Noordoostpolder. Also, various operations are required during preparation and post-processing...