Team Tumbleweed

🚀 We're stoked to participate in Tech Tour Space later this week!

🌬 And we’re rolling, rolling, rolling down Jezero Crater... 🎶 In this simulation, you can see the Tumbleweed rover moving down a shallow slope on Mars’ Jezero Crater. 📡 Our Location and Attitude Determination (LAD) team uses Unity to create incredibly cool simulations of our rovers moving on the Red Planet. The terrain was modeled using Digital Terrain Map with high-resolution elevation data, and overlaid with its corresponding Martian colour map. In these simulations, the team can change the hardware models of the on-board sensors and different parameters like the rover's size, sails, model, and drag coefficient. Our LADs’ work is critical to ensure we know where our rovers are on Mars and the datasets gathered are mapped precisely to the Martian surface. Catch their presentation at #IAC2024 tomorrow, October 16, 🕙 10:51 AM, Orange Hall 2 to find out more about their fascinating work. Tim Holthuijsen William Moretti Tolga Ors #iac #iac2024 #roadtomars #teamtumbleweed

🌍 All roads lead to Milan, Italy! 🍕 Catch Team Tumbleweed at IAC2024 this week! 🚀 Mark your calendars for October 16 to hear the latest from our engineering teams, or grab one of our crew to chat over a hot espresso. ☕ 📅 10:51 AM, Orange Hall 2 “Towards a Comprehensive Location and Attitude Determination for a Rolling, Wind-Driven Mars Rover” 📅 12:35 PM, Space Hall 1 “Suborbital Flight Demonstration for De-Risking the Entry, Descent, and Landing Sequence of a Tumbleweed Mars Rover” Julian Rothenbuchner Guillaume Brault Lucas Cohen Tim Holthuijsen Tolga Ors Austin Phillips https://lnkd.in/d-Da_s7D https://lnkd.in/d-sd296p #iac2024 #teamtumbleweed #roadtomars

Congrats, Tolga Ors! 🙌 We're so proud to have you on the team! 🚀

🚀 Demo Day Announcement! 🚀 In addition to the exciting lineup of entrepeneurs and speakers, we are also excited to introduce you to the student teams that will be showcasing their work on our Demo Day✨ AeroDelft - Developing a hydrogen-powered aircraft to demonstrate the potential of sustainable aviation and zero-emission flight. Lunar Zebro - Building the world’s smallest and lightest lunar rover, designed for autonomous exploration of the Moon's surface. Team Tumbleweed - Developing autonomous rolling robots designed to collect environmental data in remote and challenging terrains. Want to visit our Demo Day? Register through the following link to make sure we reserve a place for you and get the updates on the details of the program while we get closer!  https://lnkd.in/ej2erPZB #AerospaceInnovation #DemoDay2024 #Networking  #Innovation  #Startups  #TechEvents #TUDelftCampus Gemeente Delft | TU Delft Campus | TU Delft | Aerospace Engineering | InnovationQuarter | VSV 'Leonardo da Vinci' | Provincie Zuid-Holland | Nederlands Lucht- en Ruimtevaartcentrum

Engineering, rain, and lots of fun of course - our #Tumblemeet2024 truly had it all. 🪐 Last weekend, members from our different locations and teams got together in Delft, NL, for a weekend of getting to know each other better in challenges, games, and conversations.❤️ While the weather was not always optimal, this couldn't stop our members from bringing their A-game for launching some bottle rockets - stay tuned to see more of this amazing get-together (and perhaps some water-fuelled launches)! 🚀 #teamtumbleweed #roadtomars #teambuilding

Accelerating content driven innovation; Come and join the Aerospace Innovation Hub @TU Delft DEMOday on October 8th! We are proud to let you know that we have 24!!! exciting start-ups/scale-ups lined up to connect you to during the day! Our team (see picture) is working hard to make this DEMOday a fantastic succes! What started 5 years ago together with Jos van den Boom and Victor Rijkaart has grown to a lively and active community of more than 52 entities... and still growing! It is time to reach out and show industry, government, Delft University of Technology colleagues and students the cool innovations and entrepreneurs of our community! These entrepreneurs work on the future of #aviation, #wind energy, #space and #drones. Working hard to create #impact for a better and safer #society and bringing the innovations of the TU Delft to the market. They create #inspiring environments to #work and #grow for our students and graduates. They work together with numerous #researchers to close the gap between research and society. We are so proud of each of them! Do you want to connect, support, join, or be inspired by one or more of them, come join us on the 8th of October! Thanks to the financial support of InnovationQuarter, Provincie Zuid-Holland, Gemeente Delft, NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre and TU Delft | Aerospace Engineering; admissions are free of charge this year making it accessible for all registered in time! Register now: https://lnkd.in/ej2erPZB And meet: 4cues.ai, Eddytec, FluxPose, Lunar Zebro, AeroDelft, Team Tumbleweed, VÆRIDION, Elysian Aircraft, Geronimo.AI, A-SpaX, Revolv Space, Aerohauler, Arceon, ParaPy, Saluqi Motors, AerogridUAV, zepp.solutions, satsearch, Obscape B.V., Ubotica Technologies, MuTech, Fiducial (previously Bladesense), Emergent Swarm Solutions !

Last week, we - much like what seemed like most others in the space industry - attended ESA's #IndustrySpaceDays in Noordwijk, NL. There, we had the opportunity to exchange thoughts and experiences with people all around the community. 💫 For video editor Ainis Alcauskis it was not only the first time representing Team Tumbleweed, but also the first time attending a space industry event! Visiting ESA ESTEC alongside our seasoned space pro Danny Tjokrosetio, he felt immediately welcomed by the community: "What I loved about ISD is the openness to help and the encouragement to learn more about the space community. I really appreciated the welcoming energy. It might not be obvious at first, but once you’re upfront, you really start to notice the positive atmosphere." Here's to many more brilliant space events! ✨ #teamtumbleweed #roadtomars #ISD2024ESA

Testing is a central part of every space mission - especially when taking a brand-new approach to Mars exploration.⚙ With our Tumbleweed rovers, our engineers repeatedly test every aspect of the design when prototyping. Like this, they learn more about the mechanisms and ideal set-up. This summer, they made big progress, including our first drop tests to test the rover's unfolding mechanism. 🔧 On their way to the surface of the Red Planet, the Tumbleweed rovers will also be dropped from a significant height above the Martian poles. Head to our blog to learn more from Sabin Ilegitim, Nils Neumeister, and Ben Placke about how our engineers are improving the Tumbleweed prototype: https://lnkd.in/dBZhzEBj

It's time for the #IndustrySpaceDays at ESA ESTEC! 🌌 At this event in Noordwijk, NL, representatives from all around the space industry - be it established companies or fresh startups - come together. Make sure to say hi to Danny and Ainis and let's talk Team Tumbleweed! #teamtumbleweed #roadtomars #ISD2024ESA