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On 25 June 2026, Prof. Detlef Koschny will talk about the dangers and the positive use of asteroids. This talk will be part of the “Forum Munich Aerospace” and take place on the TUM campus in Taufkirchen/Ottobrunn. More info… [read more]

Our team was represented at the Space Resources Roundtable in Colorado, USA, by Francisco J. Guerrero-Gonzalez. He gave a talk on sustainable oxygen extraction from lunar regolith via molten salt electrolysis as part of our research project ESPLORE. The Space Resources Roundtable took place once… [read more]

Two of our team members went to the annual in-person meeting of ISSI Team #616, Multi-scale Understanding of Surface-Exosphere Connections (MUSEC), in Bern, Switzerland. Led by Liam Morrissey and Sébastien Verkercke, this international team combines theory, observation, experiments, and modeling to… [read more]

Once again, our team attended the Space Resources Week in Luxembourg. It is the largest international conference on space resources with 520 registered participants. We presented a range of posters and talks: Florian Achorner – Evaluation of production methods of water ice particles for icy lunar… [read more]

We are happy to introduce our newest members of LPE as our team continues to grow. Get to know them better through their brief introductions and what they’ll be working on: I’m Florian Achorner, and I completed my master’s in aerospace engineering at the Technical University of Munich. During my… [read more]

For several decades, accelerators have been operated at the Chair of Astronautics, allowing small particles (micrometer to millimeter-sized) to be accelerated to several km/s. This makes it possible to simulate micrometeoroid impacts. Since the end of March, at least one of these facilities, the… [read more]

A new paper by Alexander Peschel has been published in The Planetary Science Journal. The study presents a numerically efficient method to incorporate lunar surface topography into Monte Carlo exosphere simulations by sampling local slope and azimuth distributions. Applied to helium, neon, and… [read more]

Our team presented the advancements in the VOLARIS project at the 57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas. In this work, we presented a numerical model to simulate water migration and stability in the Moon’s regolith, using heat and mass transport equations with simplified… [read more]

Christian Gscheidle successfully defended his dissertation for his doctoral degree. [read more]

In September 2025, a group of our scientists took part in the International Meteor Conference (IMC) 2025 in Soest, the Netherlands. As part of the conference, they participated in the preceding Spectroscopy Workshop and presented their research in talks. The International Meteor Conference is an… [read more]