The Sentinel-5P satellite was launched on October 13 from a Russian Rocket. It carries the most precise pollution measuring instrument ever made. Delft researcher Pieternel Levelt initiated the work on this device called the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument.

The shipping industry wishes to become less polluting and more sustainable. But how? Two TU Delft students have kick-started a transition towards maritime electrical transport.

For over three centuries, mechanical watches didn’t differ much from the pendulum clock invented by Christiaan Huygens in 1675. But the so-called ‘balance and hairspring’ principle now seems outdated thanks to Delft researchers who claim to have developed the most accurate mechanical watch ever.