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The first commercial microsatellite developed under ESA’s SAT‐AIS programme for tracking ships, called ESAIL, has passed another milestone. This month its Canadian operator exactEarth signed the launch service agreement with Arianespace.

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GomSpace’s subsidiary in Luxembourg and ESA announced that they have signed a contract of EUR 400.000 for the Phase A design of the Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer (M-ARGO) mission.

The LSA Data Center has been created to support businesses in Luxembourg with reliable, fast and intuitive access to data of the Copernicus Programme.

Exploring next generation satellite technology, with SES CTO, Ruy Pinto.

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the United States of America today signed a memorandum of understanding that will serve to catalyze and significantly deepen cooperation between the two countries in the field of space.

INTERVIEW: Developing the Earth-moon binary system and democratizing space, with ispace Vice-President Global Sales and Strategy, Kyle Acierno.

INTERVIEW: Just two months after HIS company celebrated its first full year in business, LSA spoke with Dejan Petkow, CEO and Co-Founder of SPARC, to find out exactly what plasma is, and how it’s helping us reach for the stars. SPARC is a Luxembourg-based start-up, developing plasma propulsion systems and simulation software for the space industry.

In fall 2019, the University of Luxembourg launches a two-year Interdisciplinary Space Master program.

Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium, and Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg, signed a joint declaration in Brussels in which the two countries commit to collaborate on the development of an international framework for the exploration and utilisation of space resources.

A Luxembourg Space Agency study predicts a market revenue of up to 170 billion EUR generated by the space resources utilization industry between 2018 and 2045.

Following the UAE Space Agency's signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in 2017, a one-day workshop involving both parties was held on December 5, 2018 in Abu Dhabi.

The Luxembourg Space Agency and the Space Frontier Foundation are organizing the 2nd NewSpace Europe conference on November 27 and 28, 2018 in Luxembourg City.

ODYSSEUS Space is the winner of the SpaceResources.lu challenge of the ESA Space Exploration Masters competition that awards the best business ideas for space exploration that also benefit society.

Luxembourg and the Republic of Poland signed a memorandum of understanding to start bilateral cooperation on space activities with particular focus on the exploration and utilization of space resources.

The Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Czech Republic signed a memorandum of understanding on a cooperation in the frame of space resources exploration and utilization.

In the framework of the Luxembourg law related to the exploration and utilisation of space resources, a conference entitled “Innovation, space technologies, and patents” took place on 8 October 2018 in Luxembourg-Kirchberg.

ispace contracted with SpaceX to carry its spacecraft—its Lunar Lander and Lunar Rovers—as secondary payloads on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket

The Mining Space Summit is a one-day workshop organized to foster the increasingly vibrant dialogue around the development of the space resource utilization sector.

The arrival of three US companies further widens the spectrum of activities of the Luxembourg business-oriented space ecosystem and reinforces Luxembourg's space capabilities.