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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…

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A Second Chance for Damaged Satellites Who Face Their Last Odyssey

38,000 kilometres above Earth — beyond the Hubble telescope, the International Space Station, and even the farthest-flung geostationary satellites — is a graveyard. Littered with over 3,000 defunct satellites, this is where geostationary satellites come to die. These retired behemoths invested their final three months of operational fuel into reaching this orbit, just 300 kilometers above the geostationary…

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Gala IT One: SnT and Dr. Jean Hilger Receive Prestigious Awards

The 2021 edition of the Gala IT One was held on 7 December 2021 at LuxExpo The Box. Organised by Farvest, this insightful conference gathered IT experts from all over the country and awarded some of the most prominent personalities and companies in Information and Communications Technology. This year, both SnT and Dr. Jean Hilger…