KTH Space Center coordinates and promotes space-related activity at several KTH departments, with an overarching objective of establishing KTH as a "Space University" and a hub for Swedish space research and technology.
New vacancy as assistant professor in Space Technology
There is a new vacancy as assistant professor in Space Technology that you can apply for here at KTH. Click
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to apply!
Work in a real space project and earn academic credits
KTH Space Center offers students the opportunity to work in a real space project for two semesters and earn academic credits in the student satellite project MIST. Right now MIST is looking for student to work in the following technical fields:
You can now apply for the prize for best final degree project in advanced and basic level. The last date for appliction is the 20 January 2021 at 23:59. You can read more about how to apply with your thesis work here:
Participate on Jill Tarters webinar ''Phone Home: Waiting for Signs of Life in the Known Universe''
Are you interested in the extraterrestrial life? Jill Tarter, a former researcher at NASA and has worked for over 40 years to answer the question "are we alone in universe?" She will give a webinar tomorrow (11/18) between 21:00-22:00 where you can participate!
Life on Venus, and how to explore Venus with high-temperature electronics
Professor Carl-Mikael Zetterling will on October 1 give a lecture on how KTH is working on developing electronics that can handle high temperatures, such as the temperatures on Venus. You can now take part of the lecture here!
https://www.kth.se/blogs/wov/
Summer book recommendations by Sven Grahn
Sven Grahn, project manager of KTH Space Center's student satellite MIST has shared some of his recommendations for books to read. They are perfect to read now during summer or in general during these quite unusual times. In the document attached below you can find a description of the books.
Some of the books are freely available for download at NASAs website.
Winner of prize for the best final degree project 2019 - Florine Enengl
KTH Space Center’s prize for final degree project on advanced level is awarded annually to a student at KTH. The student have performed a final degree project of high quality in a subject within the areas of interest to KTH Space Center. The prize for best final degree project 2019 was awarded to Florine Enengl. In her work she explores the relationship between energetic particle precipitation and mesopause temperature
Are you interested in reading more on the work it can be found as an attachment below:
We at KTH Space Center would like to offer our congratulations to Florine Enengl on a well performed final degree project. Are you a student at KTH who believes that you final degree project fulfulls our criteria you are welcome to apply for next years prize, more information can be found on the links below:
Multiple project from KTHs Division of Geoinformatics have gained publicity
KTHs Division of Geoinformatics works with the science and technology for collection, management, visualization, analysis and presentation of geospatial data. Some of the divisions many project has gained publicity from The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and made it to their top 100-list 2020 with the theme 'Highlighting research for sustainable development'. With this list IVA aims to highlight research with a connection to sustainability. And one of the projects on this list is from the KTHs Division of Geoinformatics and uses Earth observation data for realtime monitoring of wildfires. More information on the project can be found below:
EO&AI4Wildfire: Earth Observation Big Data and AI for Near Real-Time Wildfire Monitoring IVA - EO&AI4Wildfire
ESA and KTH have developed a Water drop antenna
In a collaboration between ESA and KTH, engineers have developed new 'water drop' antennas, named since its shape resembles the ripples produced by a water drops falling on a fluid.
The antenna is designed to direct radio waves. Traditional waveguide lenses use complex dielectric materials to limit unwanted electromagnetic signals, but this new water drop lens directs wanted signals purely due to its curved shape. This results in a much simpler and cheaper manufacturing process and opens up for interesting opportunities.
Now our latest lecture about the most energetic particles ever detected is available online! This lecture about ultra high energy cosmic rays was held by Francesca Capel on the 12th of September 2018.
