The new space incubator company Wilda Tracking AB has developed a positioning system for firefighters and aims develop leading tech in detecting rescue personnel in disaster areas. This autumn, the equipment will be tested in three areas in northern Sweden – Kiruna, Jokkmokk and Övertorneå. – We want to be part of the solution to […]
After a most fruitful first part of 2017, summer is finally gaining its way even here in the grand North. We have an interesting period behind us with several events and important visitors in the region specially focusing on our business. Space has become an important and well established element in our daily lives and […]
Can new design methodology optimize the development of space components? Professor Reza Emamis research group in Space technology is researching to see if Concurrent Engineering and Hardware-in-the-loop simulations can be used in the university’s new laboratory for nano-satellites and in the space industry as a whole. – With the current trend in both miniaturizing space […]
The 23rd ESA Symposium, 11-15 june in Visby, Sweden, is one of the larger conferences on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research. RIT will be there to meet the space industy and network with future members of the Centre of Excellence that is being planned to start at Space Campus in Kiruna within […]
The Instrumentation for Space and Planetary Investigation, Resources and Exploration Lab (INSPIRE Lab), has been officially inaugurated on the occasion of the opening of the Mars Week at Luleå University of Technology. The event counted on the attendance of the members of the HABIT science team, who held their first meeting these days. They could […]
Innovate or die, that was the message from Peter Sandberg, keynote speaker and Head of Innovation Strategy at RISE during Space Innovation Forum 4. The forum focused on the need of strong innovation processes in the space industry in order to get ahead of the competition. The keynote speaker Peter Sandberg, Head of Innovation Strategy […]
The Swedish miniaturized satellite that is built and developed at Luleå University of Technology in collaboration with Open Cosmos, has been launched into space. After a stop at the International Space Station, it will soon be in orbit in the thermosphere. – We will boost new frontiers of scientific research on this rather unknown portion […]
Luleå university of Technology is looking to expand it’s research focus into Space Technology and Atmospheric Science. The university is currently looking to hire three new researchers, two Ph.D. students and on Senior Research Engineer. – The Space Industry in Kiruna is experiencing a boom right now so we have to make sure that we […]
Sweden’s leading space scientists, representatives from the space industry and policymakers. All will gather in Kiruna in May, to attend Rymdforum – Sweden’s largest meeting place for stakeholders in the space area and just after that the Space Innovation Forum will take place. – We have invested in space science in recent years, with a […]
The department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering at LTU is now looking for a new Assistant Professor to contribute to the space field. The group’s mission is to conduct research and training on observation systems, instrumentation, communication and manipulation in the upper atmosphere, in space and planetary objects. Miniaturized, autonomous spacecraft and […]