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On Friday Jordi Boldú nailed his thesis “The Role of Kinetic Waves in the Solar Wind Evolution” at IRF Uppsala. The thesis was written at IRF and Uppsala University, under the supervision of Daniel Graham.
Researchers at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) are participating in a study funded by European Space Agency, ESA to develop the scientific instrument package concept for a potential future lunar surface mission. The concept, named as Lunar Environment Analysis Package (LEAP, or AstroLEAP), is being prepared, targeting its deployment in the early 2030 on the lunar surface.
An instrument developed at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna has recently completed an important environmental test ahead of a future space mission. The instrument SCIENA (Solar wind Cometary Ions and Energetic Neutral Atoms), which will fly aboard ESA’s Comet Interceptor spacecraft, has now completed a thermal vacuum cycle test.
International Women’s Day is observed worldwide on 8 March. At the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, researchers, engineers and doctoral students from many different countries work together to advance our understanding of the space environment and to develop instruments for international space missions.