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2024-11-13: Ion motion in focus when a comet transforms from hibernating to active
2024-10-25: Doctoral thesis nailed by Anja Möslinger
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2024-03-18: Meet IRF’s employees!
2024-03-11: A new mentor programme for Woman in Space Sweden
2024-03-05: New Study Reveals Breakthrough Findings on Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence in Near-Earth Space
2024-01-23: Swedish Institute of Space Physics launches aurora app for Kiruna
2024-01-10: Louis Richard nailed his doctoral thesis – focus on energy conversion and particle acceleration
2023-11-17: What is ALIS_4D and what is a all-sky camera?
2023-11-02: Joshua Dreyer nailed his doctoral thesis – material from Saturn’s D ring in focus
2023-10-26: Jesper Fredriksson focuses on instruments in extreme space environments at Space Rendezvous
2023-10-17: 114 doctoral theses during the years 1963-2022
2023-07-07: Now the adventure in space has began for the Swedish instrument Particle Environment Package on board Juice
2023-05-26: The Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation (RPWI) instrument on the ESA JUICE spacecraft has successfully deployed all its sensors.
2023-03-12: Due to wind condition canceled launch of sounding rocket from Esrange – new attempt on March 13
2023-03-10: IRF’s space scientists answer questions about the scientific experiment
2022-12-19: A new study uncovers the missing link between ULF waves in the foreshock and the magnetosphere
2022-11-18: IRF studies plasma shock waves as part of the EU H2020 SHARP project
2022-09-16: Solar Orbiter has captured the first image of a magnetic field reversal
2022-05-24: The Japanese Ambassador Noke Masaki visited IRF
2022-04-22: Doctoral thesis “nailed” by Philipp Wittmann
2022-04-12: IRF scientist participate in a popular science webinar – theme aurora borealis
2021-10-06: Women in space – Hayley live from Kiruna
2021-09-15: The Indian Ambassador Tanmaya Lal visited IRF
2021-09-08: The British Ambassador Judith Gough visited IRF
2021-06-09: IRF scientist Peter Wintoft about space weather during Innovation Days
2021-05-04: ALIS_4D: the unique measurement system for studies of the northern lights
2021-04-15: Meet IRF’s new doctoral student Ida
2021-03-23: Exciting things are ongoing at IRF SpaceLab in Kiruna
2020-12-22: Sounding rocket will create colorful clouds for aurora studies
2020-12-07: Video shows the development of the Jupiter sensor JNA
2020-11-26: 20 years since IRF’s nanosatellite Munin was launched
2020-10-23: Moa Persson nailed her doctoral thesis and won the prize for best poster
2020-05-08: Young IRF scientist awarded a Zeldovich Medal
2020-04-28: It’s time for mechanical tests
2020-02-27: The Swedish Institute of Space Physics participates in a 10 million Euro research infrastructure to support planetary science
2020-01-29: IRF receives 32 million SEK from the Swedish National Space Agency
2019-04-15: Invoicing – e-invoice
2018-07-12: Observations of noctilucent clouds from a stratospheric balloon
2018-01-30: IRF researcher measures turbulence in the magnetic environment round the Earth
2016-01-28: IRF scientists show how Saturn Alters the Ionosphere of Titan

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