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ISM Students Design a Lunar Navigation Satellite System

The goal was to design a spacecraft on their own. In one semester of teamwork, eleven students in the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Space Master (ISM) completed their mission to design a satellite system for navigation services on the Moon. The project, called LuPoiNT (Lunar Positioning, Navigation and Timing), created a system similar to GPS…

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Behind the News: A Q&A with Cedric Lothritz on LuxemBERT

Last week we published the news that the first Luxembourgish AI model, LuxemBERT, was created in a partnership with BGL BNP Paribas. Here we go behind the story and get to know the PhD student who worked on the project, Cedric Lothritz, and what the research entails.

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Studying CubeSats: A Look into the Orbit

At the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), students of the Interdisciplinary Space Master (ISM) can handle and develop miniaturised satellites, known as CubeSats. The CubeSatLab is a centrepiece of the ISM, and provides facilities that allow students to fully understand this revolutionary technology.

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Renforcer les radars cognitifs par l’apprentissage actif

Jour après jour, les radars nous fournissent des informations essentielles sur les objets en mouvement, telles que leur position et leur trajectoire. Traditionnellement, les radars balaient une zone entière en continu, mais les nouveaux radars cognitifs se concentrent plutôt sur certaines régions en utilisant des connaissances contextuelles.

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Autonomy and AI to Create an In-Space Economy

In the last 2 years, LMO and the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) have been working together to bring computer vision-based autonomous technologies from ground up to space.

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SnT Spin-off LuxAI and LIH Awarded Funding for Health Research

LuxAI, the creators of the expressive humanoid social robot ‘QTrobot’ and SnT spin-off, have been awarded 1.86 million EUR for a research project in partnership with the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH). The funding, announced last Friday, is from the Ministry of the Economy, the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and Luxinnovation’s first Joint Call…

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Legal Hackers Event Celebrates International Women’s Day

Earlier this month, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust at the University of Luxembourg sponsored an event run by Luxembourg Legal Hackers celebrating International Women’s Day, with the aim of sharing local success stories. Hosted by Arianna Rossi, a post-doctoral researcher at SnT and founder of Luxembourg Legal Hackers, the event entertained a…

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SnT Welcomes Prof. Christian Fisch to Head Entrepreneurship Research

Prof. Christian Fisch joined SnT on 1 February 2022 as Head of the new Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and New Technology (EINT) research group. Over the course of his career, Prof. Fisch has taught courses in undergraduate, graduate, and MBA programs at public and private universities in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Germany, where he won several teaching…

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SnT’s 2021 Annual Report is Live

It gives us great pleasure to share with you the 2021 edition of SnT’s Annual Report: a collection of highlights from the last year of research. Together we went above and beyond – from the University of Luxembourg being ranked among the top 10 worldwide in the field of software engineering to being awarded the…

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Beating the Blackout: Researching Re-Entry Communication Failings

In a space mission, re-entry in the atmosphere is one of the most principal phases, but also the one of the riskiest. The spacecraft is subjected to high temperatures and disrupted communication, more commonly known as a ‘radio blackout’. This problem has existed ever since our first foray into space in the 1960s, and, so…