Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Solar System Physics and Space Technology (SSPT) program at IRF in Kiruna, to advance our knowledge of Venus’ magnetotail plasma processes. The Ph.D. project will focus on the analysis of data collected by the space instrument that SSPT built to…
On the rooftop of the IRF headquarters in Kiruna are domes that protect, among other instruments, various aurora cameras. Under one of these domes is one of a total of five cameras that are part of the unique measurement system ALIS_4D, intended for aurora studies. Under another dome is an all-sky camera that images the…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the selection of three prospective space missions. Among these missions, the Swedish Institute for Space Physics (IRF) takes the lead in managing the scientific instrument consortia for two projects: the Plasma Observatory and M-MATISSE. The forthcoming three-year “Phase A” which consists of comprehensive technical and scientific studies will…
On November 1, Joshua Dreyer nailed his doctoral thesis Diving Deep into Saturn’s Equatorial Ionosphere with Cassini: Insights from the Grand Finale. The doctoral thesis was completed at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala and Uppsala University. The thesis is based on analyzes of data from measuring instruments on board the Cassini spacecraft….
How do you build scientific instruments that can withstand extreme radiation in space? When IRF’s research engineer Jesper Fredriksson participates during the Space Rendezvous on November 2, he will talk about the work to develop and build instruments that must withstand extreme radiation from the space environment around Jupiter and its icy moons. Organizers of…
Available projects – Solar terrestrial and atmospheric research (Kiruna) Interactive Earth orbit dynamics playground (space safety) (project work) Develop a software where we can use `Orekit` to compare different orbits, propagators, propagator settings and play with settings to get intuitive feeling of orbital dynamics and propagators, as well as their advantages and limitations through visualizations….
Available projects – Solar system physics and space technology (Kiruna) Instrument design optimization (master thesis/project work) IRF is currently developing a new instrument to measure fluxes of particles with positive and negative charge states. The instrument design is based on the Jovian plasma Dynamics and Composition analyzer (JDC). JDC is a part of the Particle…
Available projects – Space plasma physics (Uppsala) High fluxes of suprathermal electrons in the Earth magnetotail Study the source regions of high energy suprathermal electrons in the Earth magnetotail using ESA Cluster satellite observations during 12 years of its mission. Background Cluster consists of 4 spacecraft with orbit apogee at 19 Earth radii. Since 2001…