Astrid-2 project in Oulu

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The second Swedish scientific microsatellite, Astrid-2, was launched 10 December 1998 at 11:57:07  into an orbit of 1000 km altitude and 83° inclination (i.e., nearly polar orbit). The project (that ended about seven months later, 24 July, when the contact to the satellite was lost) was managed, technically, by the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and, scientifically, by the Alfvén Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.

The Oulu group is involved in the analysis software development for the joint electric and magnetic field instrument, EMMA, build by the KTH group. More precisely, we are working on the current sweep part of the program.

See also:

• Astrid-2 pages of SSC
• Astrid-2 preprint by Blomberg et al.
• Space Physics Group of Oulu Home Page