The new business development programme Space Innovation Summer has just started. Students work on expanding new regional product or service ideas for space. Space Innovation Summer runs over nine weeks and is led by LTU Business as part of the highly popular summer programme. Northern lights forecasts, avalanche alerts Rebecka Svensson, Space Technology student at […]
The main players in the Nordic Space Innovation industry met at Esrange Space Centre outside Kiruna to discuss strategic cooperation for the nordics to become the foremost space region in the world. Participants are the ESA BIC incubators from Norway, Finland, Denmark – on its way to start, Sweden and Estonia. Anna Rathsman, Director General […]
Northern Sweden’s next big space project RIT 2021 was inaugurated at the event Space Innovation Forum during the week. The project is run by Luleå University of Technology with the aim of promoting pioneering research and innovations for the space industry in northern Sweden. – As Sweden’s leading space university, it is important to be […]
The institute for Space Physics, IRF, joins the RIT2021 project together with the other space actors in northern Sweden. IRF participates in numerous space projects to explore the solar system as well as improving the unique Northern Lights research through various ground-based measurements. And now the institute joins RIT2021 project in collaboration Luleå University of […]
Onboard Space Systems at Luleå University of Technology, the research group of professor Reza Emami, is working in the field of Multi-spacecraft formation flying with an aim of advancing of the real world applicability of the spacecraft formation. – One of the group’s active research areas is development of new strategies and control algorithms for formation flying and operation of […]
Luleå University of Technology continues to strengthen and develop its role as Sweden’s leading Space University. The project Rymd för innovation och tillväxt, RIT, got new funding. – Now we have the opportunity to establish earlier initiatives. We will get lasting results and a sustainable development effort, says Johanna Bergström-Roos, project leader for RIT 2021. […]
– Today there are major communication problems in the arctic. It is sparsely populated and because of that there are no telecommunications network or fiber network. We want to solve this by providing internet via nano satellites in a polar orbit above the 66th latitude, said Jan-Olof Sänkelä, founder of N66 Connect. The challenges of […]
Region Norrbotten, one of RIT’s chief financial backers, has written an article about the merits of the RIT project as a regional developer now that the project is nearing its closure. The article is a lengthy interview with the project leader Johanna Bergström-Roos regarding the results of the RIT-project and the necessity of a project […]
Three years of the RIT project culminated in the inauguration of the new center of excellence in Space Technology at the event Space Innovation Forum – A center of excellence gives us stability and a dedicated resource to work with company cooperation. It also creates credibility for our partners and strengthens the space profile for […]
NanoSat Lab is Luleå University of Technology’s lab for design, testing and development of space systems onboard different types of spacecrafts. In the lab, which was inaugurated in April 2018, small satellites, so-called cube satellites, will be designed, developed, manufactured and tested. The aim is to be able to send up whole “fleets” of cube […]