IMAGEChildhood Friends, Adopted From India, Discover They’re SistersMeena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were adopted from India by families in the Netherlands and grew up less than 100 miles apart.
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IMAGEReport: How Iraola feels about potential Cody Gakpo exit as Liverpool continue to eye PSG duoDuring Liverpool’s friendly against Como at Anfield on Sunday, Cody Gakpo showed no signs of being distracted by the considerable speculation surrounding his future.The Netherlands forward opened th...
IMAGE‘Snapshot’ Review: A Nifty Calling-Card Debut Refashions the Jack the Ripper Story as Found-Footage HorrorFound footage may be a fairly stale gimmick in horror these days, but the low-budget British indie “Snapshot” finds a way to freshen up the idea — and if that largely amounts to layering another technical gimmick over it, the results are nonetheless striking. Emulating the look of 19th-century pinhole photography, with the entire film […]
IMAGEFrom drone flight to sounding rocketA drone carrying an unusual payload recently took to the skies above ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands, marking the first test flight of a student-developed radar retroreflector technology.
IMAGEMeet space startups at ESA’s Industry Space DaysStartup companies which have come up with brilliant ideas for using space will join the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Industry Space Days (ISD) event on 16–17 September at ESA-ESTEC in the Netherlands.
IMAGEArtemis II crew at ESTECThe four Artemis II astronauts visited ESTEC, ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands, on 13 July as the first stop in a series of post-flight visits to the European teams that made their mission possible.
IMAGESES and Airbus Secure Site for Quantum Communications Ground StationEuropean satellite operator SES and Airbus have secured a site at the NL Space Campus in Noordwijk for the Eagle-1 optical ground station. The announcement comes less than two months after the launch of the system’s satellite component was once again delayed, this time until no earlier than late 2027. SES and Airbus Netherlands signed […] The post SES and Airbus Secure Site for Quantum Communications Ground Station appeared first on European Spaceflight.
IMAGEArtemis II astronauts visit ESAYesterday, the four Artemis II astronauts visited ESA’s technical site in the Netherlands, where they met the team behind the European Service Module that powered their Orion spacecraft around the Moon and safely back to Earth.
IMAGEStay space chemical compliant in the EUOn 2 June, the European Space Agency (ESA) will hold its free REACH workshop on chemical compliance in the space sector. This all-day event will be held at ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands, with an option to join online.
IMAGERegister for ESA’s Industry Space Days 2026Registration is open for Industry Space Days 2026 at the European Space Agency’s (ESA) technical centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, on 16–17 September.
IMAGEESA analysing fireball over Europe on 8 March 2026At approximately 18:55 CET (17:55 UTC) on Sunday 8 March 2026, a very bright fireball moving from the southwest to the northeast was observed by many people in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
IMAGEWorld-first gigabit-per-second laser link between aircraft and geostationary satelliteFaster, more secure connections from space could one day make broadband on planes, ships and even remote roads as easy as turning on a light. The European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus Defence and Space, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and German payload manufacturer TESAT (as subcontractor) successfully connected an aircraft to a geostationary satellite using laser communications, bringing people closer to seamless, high‑speed connections in daily life.
IMAGESmile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French GuianaJust over a year since Smile arrived in the Netherlands in two parts, the now-complete and thoroughly-tested spacecraft has left for good. With a launch window set for 8 April – 7 May on a Vega-C rocket, the joint European-Chinese mission is almost ready to embark upon its unique space mission.
IMAGEBarred spiral galaxy spotted 11.5 billion years in the pastLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, has identified a contender for one of the earliest known spiral galaxies containing a stellar bar, a structure that plays a role in how galaxies evolve. The system, designated COSMOS-74706, appears as a barred spiral galaxy from a time wh
IMAGEESA to Build €20 Million Human and Robotic Exploration Hub in GermanyThe European Space Agency (ESA) has announced plans to establish a central hub for all its exploration activities in Cologne, Germany. The project includes the construction of a new €20 million building on the grounds of the European Astronaut Centre to accommodate staff of the Human and Robotic Exploration directorate currently based in the Netherlands. […] The post ESA to Build €20 Million Human and Robotic Exploration Hub in Germany appeared first on European Spaceflight.
IMAGENATO allies ditch Boeing for new surveillance planesBrussels, Belgium (AFP) Nov 13, 2025 NATO countries have ditched plans to buy US-made Boeing aircraft to replace the alliance's ageing fleet of surveillance planes, after Washington pulled out of the programme, the Netherlands said Thursday. The Western military alliance had announced in 2023 that members would acquire six Boeing Wedgetail jets in one of its "biggest-ever" joint purchases as it looked to bolster its capabiliti
IMAGEPlato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boatThe European Space Agency’s Plato spacecraft has safely arrived at ESTEC, ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands. There, engineers will complete the spacecraft by connecting its solar panels and sunshield, and carry out a series of critical tests to confirm that Plato is fit for launch and ready for its planet-hunting mission in space.
Show HN: I Processed Brazil's 85GB Open Company Registry So You Don't Have ToLast year, I needed to find all software companies in São Paulo for a project. The good news: Brazil publishes all company registrations as open data at dados.gov.br. The bad news: it's 85GB of ISO-8859-1 encoded CSVs with semicolon delimiters, decimal commas, and dates like "00000000" meaning NULL. My laptop crashed after 4 hours trying to import just one file.So I built a pipeline that handles this mess: https://github.com/cnpj-chat/cnpj-data-pipelineTHE PROBLEM NOBODY TALKS ABOUTEvery Brazilian startup eventually needs this data - for market research, lead generation, or compliance. But everyone wastes weeks: - Parsing "12.345.678/0001-90" vs "12345678000190" CNPJ formats - Discovering that "00000000" isn't January 0th, year 0 - Finding out some companies are "founded" in 2027 (yes, the future) - Dealing with double-encoded UTF-8 wrapped in Latin-1WHAT YOU CAN NOW DO IN SQLFind all fintechs founded after 2020 in São Paulo:SELECT COUNT(*) FROM estabelecimentos e JOIN empresas emp ON
IMAGENATO allies to pledge capabilities to address growing threatsST. LOUIS – At the June NATO summit in the Netherlands, allies will outline specific capabilities to contribute to the alliance. “It won’t just be a pledge,” UK Royal Marines […] The post NATO allies to pledge capabilities to address growing threats appeared first on SpaceNews.
IMAGEWhen two become one: engineers get Smile ready for launchAt the European Space Agency’s technical heart in the Netherlands, engineers have spent the last five months unboxing and testing elements of Europe’s next space science mission. With the two main parts now joined together, Smile is well on its way to being ready to launch by the end of 2025.