The Interdisciplinary Space Master (ISM) of the University of Luxembourg is developed with the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA). It offers a starting point for a new global space industry, to create, shape, and sustain space enterprises.
The ISM provides students with an understanding of Space project management, space policy, ethics, and laws, entrepreneurship, legal aspects of creating intellectual property and finance and managing innovation.
Outcome:
Graduates can thus create, shape, and sustain leading commercial space enterprises and play an important role in the economy of the future.
Graduates are prepared for a variety of professional functions requiring skills in:
1. Systems and space systems engineering, technology development, and application
2. Space mission analysis, spacecraft design, and data processing
3. Big data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence
4. Software and/or hardware programming tools (robotics, STK, etc.)
5. Space application systems and the corresponding observation methods
6. Translation of scientific space objectives into mission requirements used to advise system engineers
7. Processing, analysis, and interpretation of space-derived data (sometimes big data) using machine learning and artificial intelligence for a variety of space applications
8. Design of observation and navigation systems for a particular purpose
9. Quality control and assessment of the reliability of space data
