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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!  The Luxembourg Young Graduate Trainee (LuxYGT) programme offers a wide range of internships at the European Space Agency for Luxembourg students. The internships take place at different ESA centers, offering successful applicants an opportunity to … Continued

Elizaveta Shashkova, the former chair of the student council of UNIVERSEH, has been named one of the 30 most promising students and young professionals in the space area and has been chosen by the Emerging Space Leaders Sub-Committee of the International … Continued

SpaceR, a Space Robotics Research Group of the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), was selected on 29 March for the finals in the ESA/ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. The primary goal of the challenge is … Continued

ESA’s ruling Council, meeting in Paris on 16-17 March, assessed the situation arising from the war in Ukraine regarding ExoMars, and unanimously acknowledged the present impossibility of carrying out the ongoing cooperation with Roscosmos on the ExoMars rover mission with a … Continued

A collaboration between Swedish and Finnish universities and research institutes will result in a nanosatellite, KvarkenSat, eventually being launched into orbit around the Earth. The satellite is built by researchers at Luleå University of Technology and will provide various actors … Continued

The number of rocket launches expects to increase in the future. Alexis Bohlin, researcher in Space Systems at Luleå University of Technology, wants to contribute to greener rocket engine fuel and components that provide less climate impact. – The goal … Continued

There is a very thin layer of very fine, loose material on top of Mars’ soil. By using data from NASA’s Mars lander InSight, researchers been able to resolve an extremely thin layer of soil. – Soil on Mars behaves … Continued

A team of students from the University of Luxembourg was selected as one of the winners of the “Überflieger 2” competition and will be able to conduct a scientific experiment aboard the International Space Station in late 2022 or early … Continued

The University of Luxembourg’s interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) has launched a new research group dedicated to Space Systems Engineering. The group is headed by Prof. Andreas Hein and is focusing on disruptive future space systems. Prof. … Continued