– 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 […]
The space incubator ESA-BIC Sweden has picked four new companies – Linköping Cystells, Flying Pulse from Trollhättan, and Sol-ionics and Wilda Tracking from Luleå to enter their incubator. More than 5,000 Swedes are affected annually by cardiac arrest outside the hospital environment. Only 500 of these survive. Flypulse has developed a drunker system that delivers […]
A team from Luleå University of Technology will represent Sweden in the ActinSpace innovation competition. The team won the Swedish competition – a 24-hour hackathon. – This challenge has improved our team building skills and inter-personal skills. The challenge itself challenged our prototyping skills wherein we were able to come up with a functional prototype […]
A new business cluster, ACS North, will attract more contractors and innovative companies to the growing aerospace industry in Sweden and the northern region – The aerospace industry is experiencing heavy growth and we will help in creating a more high-tech and job-creating industry in Sweden, said Göran Berlemo, CEO of Aerospace Cluster Sweden. The […]
How can Sweden remain competitive as a space center in the future? That was the question SSC wanted to solve as they launched the New Esrange project. The project will modernize the rocket base built in the 1960’s and may create new business opportunities for subcontractors and SMEs in the region. – We have already […]
EISCAT3D, a new space project totalling hundreds of millions SEK in investments, can provide many new business opportunities for Swedish companies. EISCAT is currently looking for interested companies and several tenders are available on the organisation’s website. EISCAT 3D is under way and soon a completely new international research radar will be developed to understand […]
Space is a strategically important research area at Luleå University of Technology and for the industry in the region. – The university’s space investment is exactly right in time, says Jonas Ekman, professor of Industrial Electronics and head of the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering. Technology development creates new opportunities to get […]