How Luxembourg is positioning itself to be the centre of space business

Currently the space and satellite sector accounts for almost 2% of Luxembourg’s GDP, having grown from essentially nothing three decades ago.

Tue, 23 Jul, 2019 - 23:19

By Louis Brennan

The Japanese Space Agency’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft recently landed on the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for return to earth on July 13. Its predecessor Hayabusa successfully returned samples from the asteroid Itokawa in 2010.

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