120 credits with Electromagnetism/Electromagnetism II. Participation in Mechanics III and Mathematical Methods of Physics. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.
Basic space technology. Space plasmas and magnetic fields, solar radiation and activity, and the solar wind. Plasmaspheres of the Earth and other planetary system bodies. Magnetospheric dynamics, geomagnetic storms, substorms, space weather. The rocket principle, motion in central fields, satellite orbits, and interplanetary trajectories. Spacecraft thermal and electrical interaction with the space environment, ion engines.
