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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…

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SnT Gathers Experts for Space Café Luxembourg

On 9 December, SnT resumed the Space Café Luxembourg, the premier event series gathering the members of the space community in the Grand Duchy. The dedicated evening, which took place at SnT’s facilities on Campus Kirchberg, was the first of its kind since 2019. Its theme was “The Small Satellites Revolution”, with a special focus…

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FINATRAX Participates in Winning Team for Infrachain Challenge 2021

On October 5 and 6, Infrachain held its annual blockchain hackathon: the Infrachain Challenge, sponsored by the Ministry for Digitalisation of Luxembourg. The winners of this year’s edition are the Let’sFixID team, which comprises members from the Digital Financial Services and Cross-Organisational Digital Transformations (FINATRAX) research group at SnT, namely doctoral researchers Linda Weigl and Egor Ermolaev.

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Ensuring Data Protection with Artificial Intelligence

Data protection regulations are a cornerstone of our highly digitised society. With the vast amount of customer data being gathered by companies – likely more than ever before – data protection policies have become necessary to protect our fundamental right to privacy. It’s for this reason that in 2016, the European Union formalised all requirements in terms…

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Prof. Yves Le Traon Elevated to IEEE Fellow

The IEEE Board of Directors awarded the prestigious grade of Fellow to Prof. Le Traon, vice-director of SnT and head of the Security, Reasoning and Validation (SerVal) research group for his contribution to software analysis and testing. Le Traon studies software engineering, with a focus on software testing and software security. His areas of interest include, but are not limited to innovative testing,…

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SpaceR Participates in ESRIC-ESA Space Resources Challenge

It’s the year 2028. A robot is landing on the southern pole of the lunar surface with one objective – to find resources. With poor visibility due to low lighting, this robot will need to navigate dusty, loose regolith and rocks in its search for water, one of our most valuable resources.

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NewSpace Europe 2021: How to Boost Space Innovation

On 24 November 2021, the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) hosted the annual NewSpace Europe conference in Esch-sur-Alzette. Entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders gathered physically and virtually from around the world to discuss innovations and leading topics surrounding the theme of “Connecting Entrepreneurs & Investors in the New Space Age”. Four research experts and professors at…

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PhD Graduation Ceremonies

The Ph.D. graduation ceremonies 2021 of the University of Luxembourg will take place during the Graduation Week on Belval Campus.

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From Lab to Spin-off: How Researchers Become Entrepreneurs

As we are all too familiar, in the space of just one or two years, everything can change. To survive and thrive in a fast-paced and small society like Luxembourg, keeping up with (and predicting) the latest trends in developing technologies is a necessity. For SnT, advancing knowledge and injecting high quality technology into the…