Planned projects

eASTROGAM

A space-based telescope for studies of gamma rays in the energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV that has been submitted to ESA's call for a F mission. The Particle - & Astroparticle physics group at KTH participates together with colleagues from Stockholm University. Sweden is responsible for parts of the anti-coincidence system and wishes to use eASTROGRAM to study dark matter and compact objects.

EO4Wildfire

A proposal is being developed for submission to the ESA EO Science for Society Call. In both 2017 and 2018, the world witnessed many devastating wildfires across the globe. Hotter and drier summers have resulted in increased wildfire activity in cooler and wetter regions such as Sweden, even north of the Arctic Circle. Wildfires kill and displace people, damage property and infrastructure, burn vegetation, and cost billions of dollars to fight. Therefore, timely and reliable information on active fire front, fire perimeters and progression, and damage mapping is critical for effective emergency management during wildfires. The objective of this proposed research is to develop a globally applicable, robust and automatic method, using Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 MSI data and a deep learning framework, for near real-time active fire detection, progression monitoring, fire perimeters and burnt severity mapping. 

SPHiNX

Proposal to Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA) within the new national small satellite programme. The scientific goal is to measure the polarisation of GRBs (Gamma-Ray Bursts), which builds on the research undertaken within PoGO+ and the Fermi project. SPHiNX involves groups from the Physics Department at KTH, Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering as well as the Space Plasma group at KTH. The mission was unfortunately not selected in 2018, and is now being developed further.

Other

The possibility of external funding to institute a new professorship within Aerospace Engineering or Space Research will be investigated.