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Website first online in 2000
This version went online in 2017
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- 3 July 2025: - I was interviewed by the radio program Nieuws en Co on Dutch national radio, about the discovery of the third interstellar object visiting our solar system. The item (in Dutch) starts at 1:19:35 into the broadcast.

- 23 June 2025: - I was interviewed by the RTL 4 tv program Editie NL on Dutch commercial tv, about the launch of a new Dutch defense satellite.

- 18 June 2025: - I have joined the team of co-hosts of the BNR podcast "Space Cowboys".

- 2 May 2025: - I was interviewed by the Radio program Met het Oog op Morgen on Dutch national radio channel NOS 1, about the upcoming reentry of an old failed Soviet Venus probe from 1972. The item (in Dutch) starts at 44:15 into the podcast.

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At the Palindo megalith, Bada Valley, Sulawesi

Welcome to the website of Marco Langbroek

I am a multidisciplinary scientist and science educator. Originally trained as an archaeologist, I am currently a Lecturer in Space Situational Awareness at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft Technical University in the Netherlands.

My research topics include Military Space ("spy satellites"), Palaeolithic archaeology, meteorites, and asteroids.

RTL Late Night I am a Dutch scientist with a PhD in Palaeolithic Archaeology (Leiden University 2003) but currently academically working in the field of Space Situational Awareness (satellites).

I am active in multiple fields of science, including asteroids (of which I discovered several) and meteorites. I track classified military satellites ("spy satellites"), analyse their behaviour, and blog about that on my SatTrackCam blog. My archaeological research has a focus on the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic, with a secondary interest in megaliths. In 2007, I received a VENI grant from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) to study spatial behaviour and cognition of Neandertals.

I have previously worked as an academic researcher and consultant (archaeology, meteoritics and Space Situational Awareness) at Leiden University, the VU University Amsterdam and Naturalis Biodiversity Center (the Dutch National Museum of Natural History).

I am currently a Lecturer in optical Space Situational Awareness at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, section Astrodynamics and Space Missions of Delft Technical University, the Netherlands.

(c) 2017 by Marco Langbroek