The Alpha Centauri Team, which had already been showered with awards and honors last month, was awarded the UFD-Ritsema van Eck Prize last Wednesday.
It’s the first time this award has been presented. The members of the Alpha Centauri Team receive
12,500 euro, a plaque and a piece of art. The jury was unanimous in its decision. “There were five entries, but the solar car team was for sure the winner,” said Max van der Laan, manager of the Delft University Fund (UFD). ”Only the entry from Aerospace Engineering came close.”
Last November the team made world news when their solar-powered car Nuna won the World Solar Challenge, an annual 3,000 km race for solar-powered cars across the Australian desert. The Delft students designed and built their car themselves, with the help of TUD and the European Space Association (ESA) in Noordwijk.
The students of the Alpha Centauri Team and the first Dutch astronaut, Wubbo Ockels, are already making plans for a solar car to compete in next year’s race. ”The Nuna reached 92 kilometers per hour, but with the new car we hope to be able to reach 100 kilometers per hour,” Ockels says. Once all the plans have been worked out and approved, the students from last year’s team will be replaced by a new team.
Wubbo Ockels also plans to drive Nuna on a lap of
honour this summer during the car races at Francorshamps, a famous racing circuit in Belgium.
He also dreams of a 24-hour solar race with cars driven by
electricity and another race fuelled by solar power.
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The Alpha Centauri Team, which had already been showered with awards and honors last month, was awarded the UFD-Ritsema van Eck Prize last Wednesday. It’s the first time this award has been presented. The members of the Alpha Centauri Team receive
12,500 euro, a plaque and a piece of art. The jury was unanimous in its decision. “There were five entries, but the solar car team was for sure the winner,” said Max van der Laan, manager of the Delft University Fund (UFD). ”Only the entry from Aerospace Engineering came close.”
Last November the team made world news when their solar-powered car Nuna won the World Solar Challenge, an annual 3,000 km race for solar-powered cars across the Australian desert. The Delft students designed and built their car themselves, with the help of TUD and the European Space Association (ESA) in Noordwijk.
The students of the Alpha Centauri Team and the first Dutch astronaut, Wubbo Ockels, are already making plans for a solar car to compete in next year’s race. ”The Nuna reached 92 kilometers per hour, but with the new car we hope to be able to reach 100 kilometers per hour,” Ockels says. Once all the plans have been worked out and approved, the students from last year’s team will be replaced by a new team.
Wubbo Ockels also plans to drive Nuna on a lap of
honour this summer during the car races at Francorshamps, a famous racing circuit in Belgium.
He also dreams of a 24-hour solar race with cars driven by
electricity and another race fuelled by solar power.
Announcements, in English, are on page ??. If your have short announcements to place, please send them to us at: delta@tudelft.nl
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