Lars Bylander's contribution to JUICE instruments is celebrated in Uppsala University's Aula
Lars Bylander was celebrated in the Grand Auditorium of Uppsala University for his decade-long contribution to Juice's instruments
Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) is an ESA spacecraft targeted to investigate Jupiter's Icy moons. Details of the mission can be found here: ESA - Juice .
The Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala (IRFU) leads a Juice instrument consortium called Radio Plasma Wave Instrument (RPWI). RPWI has a set of sensors, including four Langmuir probes to measure DC electric field vectors up to a frequency of 1.6 MHz, a fluxgate magnetometer that measures the magnetic field to about 40 kHz, and antennas to measure electric and magnetic fields in radio emission in the frequency range 80 kHz- 45 MHz. The RPWI hardware was designed by teams in Sweden, France, Poland, Czech and Japan.
In KTH, Lars Bylander in the Space and Plasma Physics division is responsible for the thermal control and Electrical Ground System Equipment (EGSE) in the RPWI. Managing the thermal control in the RPWI is one of Lars' main contributions in the Juice project. This involves, for example, making the thermal calculations of the Langmuir probe booms and the initial thermal assessments and calculations of all RPWI units. He is also responsible for the design, test scripts, and calibration of the EGSE, and he has also been heavily involved in the flight software verification, which requires that the RPWI sensors have stimuli. In addition, he has, to some extent, managed and helped with the materials and processes for the RPWI consortium.
At the end of May, Lars left the Juice project, and he was celebrated at the ESA Juice Science Working Team meeting in Uppsala on May 13th.
