Liège Space Center

Liège Space Center, called Centre spatial de Liège in French and abbreviated CSL, is a research center of the University of Liège in Belgium. It employs about a hundred people, roughly half of them engineers and scientists. Its activities are specialized in optics, space technologies and space environment testing, which means the center both develops optical and space-related technology and tests equipment under conditions that imitate the space environment. As a university-run facility it is a research and engineering organization that supports spaceflight work, not a national space agency in its own right.