Swedish instrument has landed on the Moon
On January 3, 03:26 Swedish time, the Chinese Chang'E-4 spacecraft landed successfully on the far side of the Moon. The Swedish Institute of Space... Fortsätt läsa
Water plumes on Europa: tasting an extraterrestrial ocean
Kiruna, 2018-12-07
Computer simulations of the plumes of liquid water that stream out of Jupiter’s moon Europa show that the forthcoming space... Fortsätt läsa
Multi-satellite space mission encounters magnetic reconnection in the Earth’s magnetotail
2018-11-15
Press release
Research to be published today in the respected journal Science presents observations made by NASA's four Magnetospheric... Fortsätt läsa
Mars’ atmosphere well protected from the solar wind
Despite the absence of a global Earth-like magnetic dipole, the Martian atmosphere is well protected from the effects of the solar wind on ion escape... Fortsätt läsa
Kiruna Goes to the Moon
The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna opens up a new destination for its research - and a new partner. In hard competition, the... Fortsätt läsa
Outstanding Swedish research results from the Cluster satellites in the Earth’s magnetosphere
Scientists from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Uppsala have published two articles in the September issue of Physical Review... Fortsätt läsa
Erosion of the Martian atmosphere by the solar wind – article in Science
Mars is bombarded by a flow of protons, electrons and alpha particles from the sun - the solar wind. The solar wind strips away the Martian... Fortsätt läsa
Swedish ASPERA-3 on board Mars Express is healthy and beginning to produce its first exciting scientific results
On 2 June the European Space Agency's spacecraft Mars Express was launched on a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. On board Mars... Fortsätt läsa