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  19.05.2026 Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court – European Final in Poland : In Manfred Lachs’s homeland, the team of the University of Vienna once again performed well at this year’s European Rounds of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court. This year’s case revolved around activities on the Moon and on so-called "on-orbit service platforms". Although both are currently still under development in reality, the fictional scenario required legal solutions for incidents and conflicts based on current space law.

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  28.07.2025 Science Academy NÖ:
  SPACE Program 2026/2027 : The two-year "Space" course offers an exciting journey through the history, science and future of space travel. From the basics of astrophysics and astronomy to rocketry, satellite technology and celestial mechanics, young people explore the physical and technical principles of space travel. Applications are possible from September 1, 2025. The application deadline is November 18, 2025, 10 a.m.

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  09.07.2025 The Living Planet Symposium 2025 put Vienna at the heart of the international space community : More than 7,000 participants from 120 countries gathered to explore Earth observation and its many applications for our planet.

Who is Who

People, companies, organisations, missions, success stories - All you need to know about Austria's space sector.

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  Tumbleweed - Access to space, as easy as mailing a package : The Vienna-based company develops pre-certified systems designed to make space accessible for new applications and users.

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  Satellives: The Next Generation of Space Infrastructure : Lilly Eichinger, founder and CEO of Satellives, found an unusal way into space entrepreneurship. Born in Budapest, she first studied philosophy and fine arts, then architecture, and eventually technical physics in Vienna. Trained as an architect with a lifelong fascination for space, she long dreamed of designing settlements on the Moon or Mars, until she realized that before humans could live and work there, space infrastructure must be put there first.

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  Ludwig Möller: Building Bridges in Europe’s Space Future : When Ludwig Möller talks about his path into space, he starts not with rockets or satellites, but with Europe. "It’s the E in ESA and in ESPI that has always mattered most to me, the European," he says. "Space came later."

Space-Wiki

Knowledge about space.

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  What exactly is a CubeSat? : More and more satellites are being launched, mostly CubeSats. But what do they look like and what makes them so special?

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  What is Spacetech? : Upstream, downstream, satellite data - the space sector is so much more than astronaut:ing in space. But what is it all exactly?

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  How the Austromir experiments still benefit us today : The scientific experiments carried out by Franz Viehböck during the first space flight by an Austrian in 1991 as part of the "Austromir" mission on the Russian Mir space station still have benefits today.

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  About austrian satellite PEGASUS : The Earth observation satellite PEGASUS celebrates its 4th birthday in June 2021.

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  In memory of the Sentinel-6 namesake: Who was Michael Freilich? : Many people cheered live when the Sentinel-6 mission started on November 21, 2020. But Austrian space fans often asked: Why is the satellite actually called Michael Freilich? Exactly the right time to introduce the person behind the name.

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  How Franz Viehböck became the Austromir Cosmonaut : The 12th of April, the date the first human Yuri Gagarin went into space is celebrated as International Day of Human Spaceflight.