The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is a governmental research institute which conducts research and postgraduate education in atmospheric physics, space physics and space technology. Measurements are made in the atmosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere and around other planets with the help of ground-based equipment (including radar), stratospheric balloons and satellites. IRF was established (as Kiruna Geophysical Observatory) in 1957 and its first satellite instrument was launched in 1968. The head office is in Kiruna (geographic coordinates 67.84° N, 20.41° E) and IRF also has offices in Umeå, Uppsala and Lund.
Address:
Box 812, SE-981 28 Kiruna
Phone:
+46-980 79000
Head of public authority (President/Vice-Chancellor/CEO/DG):
Lars Eliasson
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26 May, 2023 - Institutet för rymdfysik
The Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation (RPWI) instrument on the ESA JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft has successfully deployed all its sensors and is now delivering science data.
17 April, 2023 - Institutet för rymdfysik
At 14.14, Swedish time, on April 14, the European Juice (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) spacecraft was launched from French Guiana with the destination Jupiter and its icy moons Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede. The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is responsible for two of the ten scientific instruments on board Europe’s largest scientific space mission […]
24 March, 2023 - Institutet för rymdfysik
At 19:23 local time on March 23, a sounding rocket with a scientific experiment from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna was launched from Esrange Space Center. Thanks to collected data, IRF’s space scientists can study conditions in near-Earth space, the ionosphere. The information contributes to a piece of the puzzle in […]
9 March, 2023 - Institutet för rymdfysik
Auroral scientists at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna are planning, with the help of SSC, to launch a sounding rocket from Esrange Space Center between 12-22 March 2023 with the aim of studying conditions in near-Earth space. The experiment will create unusual and beautiful light phenomenon. “To succeed in the scientific […]
22 November, 2022 - Institutet för rymdfysik
In a new thesis from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and UmeĂĄ University, unique methods for the analysis of radar data and simulations of meteoroids in the solar system are presented. The methods have been applied to confirm the existence of rare high-altitude meteors as well as to measure space debris from the Kosmos-1408 […]
3 October, 2022 - Institutet för rymdfysik
The agreement between IRF and the Turkish Space Technologies Research Institute (TĂĽbitak Uzay) means that Swedish space researchers will once again have the opportunity to study the Moon. The scientific instrument Lunar Neutrals Telescope (LNT) is being built at IRF’s headquarters in Kiruna to study surface and near-surface environment of the Moon. This instrument is […]
26 September, 2022 - Institutet för rymdfysik
On the 27th of September, Katerina Stergiopoulou, Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) and Uppsala University, will defend her doctoral thesis. New results about the physical processes taking place in the induced magnetospheres and magnetotails of Mars and Venus will be presented. Mars and Venus don’t have a planetary magnetic field like Earth does. Consequently, […]
7 June, 2022 - Institutet för rymdfysik
In the doctoral thesis that Konrad Steinvall, Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Uppsala University, presents on June 8, new results are presented on how waves in electrically charged gas, space plasma, interact with the plasma itself in connection with an explosive process called magnetic reconnection. The process is connected to both solar storms and […]
11 May, 2022 - Institutet för rymdfysik
On May 13th Philipp Wittmann, Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) and UmeĂĄ University, will defend his doctoral thesis. Philipp has been part of developing, testing, and calibrating the particle instrument Jovian plasma Dynamics and Composition analyzer (JDC). It will measure ions and electrons in the Jovian system onboard the upcoming European spacecraft JUpiter ICy […]
24 November, 2021 - Institutet för rymdfysik
Sofia Bergman, Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) and UmeĂĄ University, will defend her doctoral thesis on low-energy ions around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 26 November. Observing low energy ions is notoriously difficult because their properties are affected greatly by the spacecraft which observes them. Sofia has developed new methods to do this. Using her work, scientists can study low-energy ions around comets and in a variety of other places in the Solar System.
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