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The University of Zurich's Space Hub continues to grow: Starting February 1, three new organizations will be using the infrastructure at the Space Hub Hangar, thereby strengthening the space and aviation ecosystem in the areas of research, education, and technology transfer.

NASA's Artemis II mission will launch in February 2026 with four astronauts on board for the first crewed mission around the moon in over 50 years. In August 2025, non-NASA organizations were invited to apply for a study to find out if and how data from small receiving stations can be used to determine the trajectory of the Orion spacecraft. The University of Zürich has been selected to participate in this study and will perform precise frequency measurements with its own roof-installed radio telescope.

Lukas Drees, UZH Space representative and postdoctoral researcher at the EcoVision Lab at UZH as well as a member of the DIZH Public Data Lab, explains in this interview how he aims to bridge a gap between public perceptions of machine learning and what the technology actually is and can do, and why the Public Data Lab is particularly well suited to this task.
Read the full interview here

This year’s UZH festive card features an image drawn from UZH research with a link to space-based observation. The selected image was contributed by the Department of Geography and is based on satellite data, showing dry snow on mountain peaks in yellow, while areas of consistently strong backscatter in urban regions appear in white.
The image was part of this year's exhibition “The Aesthetics of Wonder” at UZH.

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the Solar System planets’ interior. The composition of Uranus and Neptune, the two outer most planets, might be more rocky and less icy than previously thought.