BRUSSELS-CAPITAL

The space sector in Brussels-Capital represents more than 1000 highly qualified jobs and 5000 indirect jobs.

Areas of expertise include launch vehicles and space equipment, software engineering, telecommunications, satellite navigation, computational fluid dynamics, hypersonic flows, earth sciences, remote sensing, earth-sun interactions, plasma physics, research in microgravity, life sciences, mems and nanotechnologies.

Major sites of expertise and interest (universities, companies):

Royal Military Academy, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Belgium Institute for Space Aeronomy, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Planetarium, NUMECA International, SABCA, TRASYS, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Microgravity Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.