The BiSon64 is a sunsensor for space applications.

NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research is the National Oceanographic Institution of the Netherlands. The institute was founded in 1876 and is part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

NIOZ employs around 220 people and the annual budget is approximately €20 million. The institute is located on theislandofTexelat the border between the North Sea and theWaddenSea, and about 100 km north ofAmsterdam.  In 'FOKUZ' (Fundamental research Coast and Sea), NIOZ cooperates closely with the Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology (CEME) of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the delta area (Yerseke).

Moog Bradford is a prominent European developer and manufacturer of satellite attitude and orbit control subsystems (AOCS), propulsion and thermal subsystems and components. The activities are organized in product lines; each of which ranks top positions (first or second) within the European supplier field.

Lens Research and development is currently a one man company owned and operated by Johan Leijtens.

The activities employed span from consultancy and engineering services to innovative solutions for high reliability/ high tech systems.

The owner has almost three decades of accumulated experience in design and engineering for various special applications ranging from deep sea survey equipment, to military and space systems. (for more detailed information see CV)

Specialisms include:

• multi disciplinary Systems engineering
• detector technologies
• EMC
• High reliability interconnect
• Design for manufacturing

Special areas of interest are:

• Design of high reliability / (relative) low cost solutions
• Technology evaluations / feasibility studies
• small satellite technologies
• MEMS/microtechnology bases innovations