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Students from Lycée Vauban

After two years of work by amateur radio operators from Kayl and students at Lycée Vauban, 20 pupils were able to make live radio contact on Thursday with French astronaut Sophie Adenot aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Adenot has been on the ISS since mid-February and had agreed early on to take part in the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) educational programme. At precisely 4.47pm on Thursday, the moment finally arrived. Twenty selected students held their breath as a member of Luxembourg’s amateur radio community attempted to establish contact with the space station.

According to Arsène Klopp, president of Kayldall Radio Amateurs Association (ADRAD), the connection exceeded expectations. He said that, while ten minutes had originally been planned, the team managed to secure twelve minutes of communication, during which 19 out of 20 prepared questions were asked. The signal quality, he added, was excellent, described in amateur radio terms as “R5".

Also today

• A worker suffered critical injuries after being hit in the head by part of a drill during an accident in Doomeldange
• Neurologist and clinician-scientist Michael Heneka has been recognised for research showing that immune processes in the brain play a key role in Alzheimer’s
• Six industrial projects have been selected in Luxembourg to cut CO2 emissions and reduce reliance on fossil fuels
• Gusty Graas calls for realism on minimum wage debate, and warns of geopolitical risks
• G7 ministers and central bank officials have gathered to tackle the economic consequences of the war in the Middle East that has sent energy prices soaring and has triggered fears for the world economy.
• The speaker of Iran’s parliament has accused the US of plotting a ground attack despite publicly pushing for a negotiated deal, after a US warship with around 3,500 military personnel arrived in the Middle East.
• Several recently elected far-right mayors have taken down European Union flags from the facades of their town halls, in a move the French government denounced as “populism”.

On air

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Figure of the day

A sharp rise of 3,574 in the number of Luxembourgers registered in the US within a year is drawing attention to the country’s nationality laws

• This trend is not immediately visible in official nationality statistics. However, a closer look at the national population register shows that the number of Luxembourgers living in the US rose from 17,380 at the end of 2024 to 20,954 by the end of 2025. This contrasts with figures from the Ministry of Justice, which record only 657 new Luxembourgers from the US over the same period.
• There is no error in the figures. The roughly 3,000 additional Luxembourgers are not included in nationality statistics because they were already considered Luxembourg citizens under the law. As Justice Minister Elisabeth Margue explained, there are essentially two ways of becoming Luxembourgish: either automatically under the law, or through a voluntary application.

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