To enable safe landings at lunar camps, the collaboration effort will initially focus on developing the construction technologies and civil engineering processes needed for establishing an LLP for NASA’s Artemis return to the Moon programme.

Following the three months pre-incubation phase, the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) has selected the first start-up that will continue their launchpad journey as part of the ESRIC Start-up Support Programme (SSP).

The Moon is the next step for human presence in space.

In order to establish habitats on the moon, it will be necessary to collect the resources that are present and use them in-situ.

During a press conference on 3 August, 2022, the Minister of Economy, Franz Fayot, and the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Claude Meisch, presented the vision for the future Space Campus which will be dedicated exclusively to the space sector.

Dr. Kathryn Hadler, an internationally renowned scientist in mineral processing and beneficiation, has been appointed Director of the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) as of 1 April 2022. Backed by a PEARL Chair from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) with an endowment of…

The 72nd International Astronautical Congress served as the launch pad for EURO2MOON, a Luxembourg-based non-profit organization promoting a better use of natural lunar resources. The creation of the project, a joint effort from Air Liquide, Airbus and ispace Europe, was announced on October 26th at…

ESRIC will organise together with ESA the Space Resource Week 2021. The even will be run in a virtual setup. Registrations & abstract submission are now open on the events webpage !

On 18 November 2020 Luxembourg entered a strategic partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) to create a “European Space Resources Innovation Centre”, called ESRIC in abbreviated form.