First room
Theme: “Living on the Moon - Technical challenges”
18 November 2026 at 14:00 – 17:00
Venue MIX, 25 Boulevard du Souverain, Watermael-Boitsfort
First room: “Living on the Moon - Technical challenges”
Presentations & speakers
PRESENTATIONS
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LUVMI-M - a Belgian rover providing commercial lunar payload mobility
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SPEAKERS
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Tom Hoppenbrouwers
Business Developer at Space Applications Services
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Speakers
Topic 3: LUVMI-M - a Belgian rover providing commercial lunar payload mobility
Tom Hoppenbrouwers
Business Developer at Space Applications Services
Mr. Hoppenbrouwers has a Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium and is an alumnus of the International Space University (ISU). He is a Business Developer at Space Applications Services, with a focus on Flight Systems and on the Mobile Gravity Off-loading System. He has 20+ years of expertise in the field of Human Spaceflight, of which 10 years working as Astronaut Instructor at the European. Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. His further expertise covers systems & operations engineering, ISS procedure management and payload operations.
Belgium might be a small country but we are capable of doing big things! A first Belgian rover is going to the Moon.
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A great event that undoubtedly will leave a mark on all students and young professionals.
It brings together experts from the Belgian space industry, research centres, universities, Belspo, ESA's strategic department, the EU department, European innovation - New Space - Space Defence and Eumetsat...
Space experts will share with you the latest technological advances, their passion and their vision of space.
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