Programme structure
1st Year, LTU, Kiruna Space Campus, Sweden
Compulsory courses:
- The Solar System; 7.5 ECTS
- Spacecraft Systems; 7.5 ECTS
- Space Physics; 7.5 ECTS
- Space Communications; 7.5 ECTS
- Space Instruments; 7.5 ECTS
Optional courses:
- S0046P Swedish for International Students; 3 ECTS
Engineering Track: Space Technology and Instrumentation
Optional courses:
- Electronics in Space; 7.5 ECTS
- Spacecraft Environment Interaction; 7.5 ECTS
- Onboard computer and onboard software; 7.5 ECTS
- Polar Atmosphere; 7.5 ECTS
- Space Engineering Project 1; 7.5 ECTS
- Propulsion with Space Applications; 7.5 ECTS
Scientific Track: Atmospheric and Space Science
Compulsory courses:
- Atmospheric Physics; 7.5 ECTS
- Polar Atmosphere; 7.5 ECTS
Optional courses:
- Introduction to Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer; 7.5 ECTS
- Space Engineering Project 1; 7.5 ECTS
- Electronics in Space; 7.5 ECTS
2nd Year
During the 2nd year there are optional tracks at different universities. Students will earn 60 ECTS, which includes the Master’s thesis. The different tracks during the 2nd year are:
E1: Engineering Track 1, LTU (single diploma)
E2: Engineering Track 2, CU
E3: Engineering Track 3, CTU
E4: Engineering Track 4, UT3
E5: Engineering Track 5, Aalto
S1: Scientific Track 1, LTU (single diploma)
S2: Scientific Track 2, UT3
S3: Scientific Track 3, Aalto
Single Diploma
Engineering Track 1, 60 ECTS, LTU, Kiruna Space Campus, Sweden – Space Technology and Instrumentation
Compulsory module:
- Master’s Thesis; 30 ECTS
Optional courses:
- Orbit and Attitude Dynamics; 7.5 ECTS
- Spacecraft Control; 7.5 ECTS
- Spacecraft On-Board Data Handling; 7.5 ECTS
- Remote Sensing; 7.5 ECTS
- Image Processing with Space Applications; 7.5 ECTS
- Special Studies in Space Engineering; 7.5 ECTS
- Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control; 7.5 ECTS
- Space Project 1, 2; 7.5 ECTS
Scientific Track 1, 60 ECTS, LTU, Kiruna Space Campus, Sweden – Atmospheric and Space Science
Compulsory module:
- Master’s Thesis; 30 ECTS
Optional courses:
- Advanced Radiative Transfer; 7.5 ECTS
- Remote Sensing; 7.5 ECTS
- Image Processing with Space Applications; 7.5 ECTS
- Special Studies in Space and Atmospheric Science; 7.5 ECTS
- Spectroscopy for Planetary Exploration; 7.5 ECTS
- Space Project 1, 2; 7.5 ECTS
- Orbit and Attitude Dynamics; 7.5 ECTS
Double Diploma
Engineering Track 2, 60 ECTS, CU, UK – Dynamics and Control of Systems and Structures
Compulsory module:
- Space Propulsion; 5 ECTS
- Master’s Thesis: 45 ECTS
Optional courses (Assessment in 2 options is required; attendance without assessment of other options is permitted):
- Space Communications; 5 ECTS
- Guidance Navigation and Control of Space Systems; 5 ECTS
- Finite Element Methods; 5 ECTS
- Advanced Composite Analysis and Impact; 5 ECTS
- Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control; 5 ECTS
- Aerospace Navigation and Sensors; 5 ECTS
- Mathematics and Programming for Astrodynamics and Trajectory Design; 5 ECTS
Engineering Track 3, 60 ECTS, CTU, Czech Republic – Space Automation and Control
- Flight Control Systems; 6 ECTS
- Linear Systems; 6 ECTS
- Optimal and Robust Control; 6 ECTS
- Project; 6 ECTS
- Dynamics and Control of Networks; 6 ECTS
- Diploma thesis; 30 ECTS
Engineering Track 4, 60 ECTS, UT3, France – Space Technique and Instrumentation
- Space Sciences; 6 ECTS
- Space Systems and Technology; 9 ECTS
- Practical Assignments; 9 ECTS
- Data Analysis and Processing; 9 ECTS
- Scientific English; 3 ECTS
- Space Industry and Engineering; 3 ECTS
- Internship; 21 ECTS
Engineering Track 5, 60 ECTS, Aalto, Finland – Space Robotics and Automation
Compulsory module, 47 ECTS:
- Robotics; 5 ECTS
- Modelling, Estimation and Dynamic Systems; 5 ECTS
- Embedded Real-Time Systems; 5 ECTS
- Master’s Thesis Process; 2 ECTS
- Master’s Thesis; 30 ECTS
Finnish studies, 3 ECTS from the following:
- Survival Finnish 1; 1 ECTS
- Survival Finnish 2; 1 ECTS
- Get to know Finland; 1 ECTS
- Finnish 1; 3 ECTS
Optional courses, minimum 10 ECTS:
- Basics of Sensor Fusion; 5 ECTS
- Reinforcement Learning; 5 ECTS
- Mechatronics Basics; 5 ECTS
- Autonomous Mobile Robots; 5 ECTS
- Computer Vision P; 5 ECTS
- Micro and Nano Robotics; 5 ECTS
- Introduction to Space; 5 ECTS
- Robotic Manipulation; 5 ECTS
- Satellite Systems; 5 ECTS
- Space Physics; 5 ECTS
- Space Instrumentation; 5 ECTS
Scientific Track 2*, 60 ECTS at UT3, France – Astrophysics, Space Science, Planetology
Physics and Astrophysics; 15 ECTS
- Radiative processes and radiative transfer
- Gravitation
- Fluid dynamics
- Space plasma physics
- Formation and evolution of planetary systems
- Stellar physics
- Extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology
Transversal Courses; 9 ECTS:
- Instrumentation for astrophysics
- Analysing data and images
- Advanced space mechanics
- Engineering systems
- Scientific English
Astrophysics; 6 ECTS – 3 modules to choose:
- Interactions of planets with their environment.
- The interstellar medium and stellar formation
- Stellar and planetary seismology
- Compact objects and accretion
- Cosmology and galaxy physics
Numerical simulations; 3 ECTS:
- Numerical simulations and data processing
Internship; 27 ECTS:
- 19. An internship carried out in a research laboratory from mid-January to mid-June
* this option should only be considered by students with a strong science-centred background and after careful discussion
Scientific Track 3, 60 ECTS, Aalto, Finland – Small Satellites and Space Instrumentation
Compulsory module, 47 ECTS:
- Microwave Earth Observation Instrumentation; 5 ECTS
- Radio Astronomy; 5 ECTS
- Space Instrumentation; 5 ECTS
- Master’s Thesis Process; 2 ECTS
- Master’s Thesis; 30 ECTS
Finnish studies, 3 ECTS from the following:
- Survival Finnish 1; 1 ECTS
- Survival Finnish 2; 1 ECTS
- Get to know Finland; 1 ECTS
- Finnish 1; 3 ECTS
Optional modules, minimum 10 ECTS:
- Autonomous Mobile Robots; 5 ECTS
- Computer Vision P; 5 ECTS
- Mechatronics Basics; 5 ECTS
- Basics of Sensor Fusion; 5 ECTS
- Introduction to Space; 5 ECTS
- Micro and Nano Robotics; 5 ECTS
- Modelling, Estimation and Dynamic Systems; 5 ECTS
- Robotic Manipulation; 5 ECTS
- Satellite Systems; 5 ECTS
- Space Physics; 5 ECTS
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