KTH interest in SSA

KTH interest in SSA
Nickolay Ivchenko
Space and Plasma Physics, EE, KTH
What happens at KTH
(ca 12000 students, 2000 PhD students
#117 THE world ranking,
#6 among technical universities in Europe)
C. Fuglesang back in Sweden – 80% at KTH, PA för Aerospace
Engineering education
“Fokus Rymd coordination” – all KTH groups dealing with space
Vinnova funded coordination for Horizon2020 – meeting 131212
Wallenberg funding for SiC electronics (“working on Venus”)
What happens at Space and Plasma
Physics Department
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Hadware delivered to MMS, BepiColombo
Participation in ESA’s SolarOrbiter and JUICE
FP7 SEAM project, 3U cubesat för advanced magnetic field
measurements (launch 2016, 2 MEUR total budget)
SNSB SPIDER project, multipoint E-field measurement on
sounding rocket to E region, launch 2015
EISCAT3D application
REXUS projects
Student workshop funded by KTH
Generation shift in the engineer group
SNSB’s small satellites? (maybe…)
What is KTH interest to SSA?
Important multidisciplinary problem where we as a leading
technical university have large potential to contribute
EISCAT & optical research, extendable to SSA
Orbit reconstruction/propagation, geodesy
Solar-terrestrial coupling, space weather
Nanosatellites
Using satellites for calibration
We use satellite echoes
to calibrate the radar
interferometer
Satellite tracking
EISCAT3D?
Next generation radar to study geospace:
10 MW power
3D vector and scalar imaging
>10000 antennas
Electronic scanning/beamforming
Funds applied for in NO, SE, Finland is preparing application.
Work topics – something for KTH?
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STA-SWE-117
Wide field Auroral Camera Phase A/B
STA-SWE-119
Cubesats for operational SWE monitoring
P2-SST-404
Acquisition of radar observations in support for
the SST end-to-end validation and technology development.
but also ...
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STA-SST-110
Development of semi-analytical methods for
orbital lifetime estimation and re-entry propagation
STA-SST-111
Development of an efficient method for mean
elements computation from precise orbital data and its associated
analytic propagation method
What can KTH do?
Participate in ESA’s SSA, respond to ITT?
Yes, but in coordination
with others only
Look for synergies with Horizon2020?
Yes!
Engage in education and outreach
Yes!
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