Test services are performed continuously at IRF SpaceLab this winter despite the pandemic. High-altitude tests were performed for a swedish industry customer in parallel with the IRF’s internal test campaigns (thermal vacuum and detector testing for the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission). The IRF SpaceLab test facility at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF)…
For each station, the latest ionogram (still image) and the ionograms for the last 24 hours (video) is displayed. Archived data can be accessed from the links in the column to the right. Ionograms from Kiruna Ionograms from Lycksele Your browser does not support video tag. Ionograms from Uppsala Your browser does not support video tag….
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Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, is looking for a PhD student in Space Physics for studies of Saturn’s moon Titan. Applications are invited for a PhD student position to study the plasma environment of Saturn’s moon Titan. The work will mainly consist of data analysis from our instrument on the Cassini satellite, but also…
Applications are invited for investigations of electromagnetic structures and associated particle dynamics at the Earth’s bow shock. The work involves the analysis of magnetic, electric, and plasma measurements from the multi-spacecraft Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. Our team performs observations, data analysis, and modeling of space plasma processes (www.space.irfu.se). The team has decades of experience in…
To study auroral ionosphere dynamics with a sounding rocket. Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position in a project related to experimental and modelling studies of the auroral ionosphere. You will be involved in analyses of observations of spectacular luminous clouds and ionized plasma using state-of-the-art research facilities such as a multi-station auroral imaging system…
On the 15th of January, Fredrik Leffe Johansson of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) and Uppsala University, defends his Ph.D. thesis, which attempts to explain why the smallest dust grains near comet 67P were absent. The dissertation, titled Rosetta Observations of Plasma and Dust at Comet 67P, is based on data analysis of…
In an upcoming research experiment the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) will study small-scale structures and processes in the northern lights by releasing clouds of materials used in fireworks from a sounding rocket that will be launched from Esrange outside Kiruna. Containers with the material will be released at altitudes between 120 and 180…
A short timelapse, taken over the span of two years, shows how the Flight Model of the Jovian Neutrals Analyzer (JNA) was built and tested at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna. An simplified description, JNA will measure / search for elements (atoms) such as hydrogen and oxygen. The particle sensor JNA is…