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Most of the time gold nuggets that fill a man's hart with joy are a lot larger, but Johan Leijtens is very happy to see only very small gold nuggets in this case. The reason for this is simple. Although not easily recognisable the photo shows the extra wide bondpads implemented on the IPS+ chip which is supposed to lead to the first radiation hardened single chip true digital Sunsensor IBIS. Although the European Space Agency - ESA ARTES AT contract has formally finished, nothing is stopping SystematIC Design B.V. and Lens R&D B.V. from taking the next steps in proving the functionality of the preliminary design. After the metalfix at XFab, the gilding has now been performed PacTech - Packaging Technologies and the chips will go for dicing and packaging shortly after which PhotonFirst will create new prototypes to be tested. Exiting times ahead and steps taken that at least at Lens R&D B.V. make people happy. hashtag#highreliability hashtag#Sunsensors

Together with the NL Space tent we filled it with stands (like our Lens R&D stand), demonstrations, activities, good conversations, questions for astronauts, etc. This year also for the first time with an NL Space Quiz, a new format of company presentations that resulted in a lot of attention and interaction at the stage for speakers like Lens R&D's CEO Johan Leijtens. Together we have once again given the (inter)national general public an excellent picture of the importance of Dutch space travel and our cooperation with ESA.

In the series 'SMEs talk along', small and medium-sized enterprises talk about the major economic developments every day and share entrepreneurial insights from practice. What is behind the news for entrepreneurs? On October 7th the program was about SMEs in the space sector. BNR discussed this with Johan Leijtens, foudner and CEO of LENS R&D B.V. (Dutch only)

The Smallsat in Utah has taken place from 10-13th of August where LRD did a presentation about the current space market and LRD's true digital sunsensor. In line with this presentation, LRD published a paper (see publications) about the adventure ESA's ARTES programme brought the company and the current situation for the true digital sunsensor that the company is developing.

Please see 'New Calibration setup' under publications for the accompanying video

It has been some time ago that we discovered our website was stuck due to a non-backward compatibility update of the software we used.