Department of Physics

18307  Space Systems and Space Weather

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS254/

Course Content

•  Selection, planning and implementation of space missions.
•  Artificial satellites and spacecraft: Platforms, payload, orbits.
•  Launch, propulsion and power supply of satellites.
•  Spacecraft attitude determination and control.
•  Principles and instrumentation for particle measurements in space.
•  Processing of space measurements, use of databases, models and simulations.
•  Satellite communications and spacecraft operations.
•  Satellite Earth observation.
•  Solar sources of space weather.
•  Interplanetary space, interplanetary magnetic field, solar energetic particles.
•  Solar-terrestrial coupling and its effects.
•  Energetic particles in geospace.
• Technological and biological effects of electromagnetic and particle radiation.
• Security of space infrastructure and space situational awareness.