Space education in Kiruna, Northern Sweden
International audience The town of Kiruna in the north of Sweden has a concentration of space activities and space research with, for example, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Esrange, the ESA Salmijärvi satellite station, and EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter Radar) Scientific Association....
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-00296793v1 2023-11-12T04:16:36+01:00 Space education in Kiruna, Northern Sweden Sandahl, I. Wikström, A. Department of Space Science Kiruna Luleå University of Technology (LUT) 2005-06-16 https://hal.science/hal-00296793 https://hal.science/hal-00296793/document https://hal.science/hal-00296793/file/adgeo-3-35-2005.pdf en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union hal-00296793 https://hal.science/hal-00296793 https://hal.science/hal-00296793/document https://hal.science/hal-00296793/file/adgeo-3-35-2005.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1680-7340 EISSN: 1680-7359 Advances in Geosciences https://hal.science/hal-00296793 Advances in Geosciences, 2005, 3, pp.35-40 [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2005 ftccsdartic 2023-10-21T23:16:31Z International audience The town of Kiruna in the north of Sweden has a concentration of space activities and space research with, for example, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Esrange, the ESA Salmijärvi satellite station, and EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter Radar) Scientific Association. The Department of Space Science is a joint department between the two most northern universities in Sweden, Luleå University of Technology and Umeå University in collaboration with the Swedish Institute of Space Physics. It offers a range of education programmes in the space field. There are bachelor and master programmes in space engineering, and a bridging programme for students without a science background from secondary school. The Department also contributes to courses for teachers, Ph.D. courses and secondary school level courses. One master´s program and a three week summer course are given entirely in English and welcome international students. Thanks to good cooperation with Esrange students can build and fly experiments on high altitude balloons and sounding rockets and also take a large responsibility for the management of the projects. Close interaction with research and industry is an important part of the education. Article in Journal/Newspaper EISCAT Kiruna Luleå Luleå Luleå Northern Sweden Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Kiruna Esrange ENVELOPE(21.117,21.117,67.883,67.883) Salmijärvi ENVELOPE(29.483,29.483,65.600,65.600) |
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International audience The town of Kiruna in the north of Sweden has a concentration of space activities and space research with, for example, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Esrange, the ESA Salmijärvi satellite station, and EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter Radar) Scientific Association. The Department of Space Science is a joint department between the two most northern universities in Sweden, Luleå University of Technology and Umeå University in collaboration with the Swedish Institute of Space Physics. It offers a range of education programmes in the space field. There are bachelor and master programmes in space engineering, and a bridging programme for students without a science background from secondary school. The Department also contributes to courses for teachers, Ph.D. courses and secondary school level courses. One master´s program and a three week summer course are given entirely in English and welcome international students. Thanks to good cooperation with Esrange students can build and fly experiments on high altitude balloons and sounding rockets and also take a large responsibility for the management of the projects. Close interaction with research and industry is an important part of the education. |
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Space education in Kiruna, Northern Sweden |
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Space education in Kiruna, Northern Sweden |
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Space education in Kiruna, Northern Sweden |
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