The graduateschool of Space Science and Technology is aimed at students pursuing competences at an international level within space science, space technologies and space missions.
The recent growth and opportunities in space technology have turned the field into an international focus area. This development is partly due to the worldwide technical advances within software and computers, motors and control methods resulting in new high-yielding spacecraft. Partly due to emerging new measurement methods and interpretation models enabling space missions which will supply new knowledge applicable to other scientific and high-tech fields such as planetary science, climate research, the development of the solar system, autonomous systems, formation flying and micro sensors.
The optimisation of a space mission requires cooperation at a high level ranging from model construction, observation plans, instrumentation construction, calibration, operation, data processing, interpretation and synthesis. It is thus characteristic for space technology that researchers and users can work on their own individual fields at a high technical level and at the same time cooperate with each other (see the figure below).
To obtain a high international level within space technology, the graduate school is offered in cooperation between leading Danish space science and technology research groups at:
Aalborg University, University of Copenhagen, Roskilde University and Technical University of Denmark.
The graduate school gathers the leading activities, competences and resources in a joint offer to the students who will receive training as researchers. Furthermore, they will get the opportunity to establish direct contact to leading industrial companies and international cooperation partners.