After a few months of darkness, the Sun is decidedly above the horizon again here in Kiruna. We've had some beautiful winter days these last couple of weeks.

This is taken from Gruvstadsparken, a once urban area now reshaped into a park due to it no longer being safe for permanent housing.

As a member of the student satellite project APTAS, I got to present our yearly update at the Finnish Winter Satellite Workshop 2024.

Exciting to meet other people working and studying in the space sector, including former SpaceMaster students!

Follow @project_aptas on Instagram for updates.

This August I started studying space technology in the joint European SpaceMaster master's program. This is a two-year program where students spend the first year in Kiruna in Swedish Lapland and the second year in another European university of their choice.

Here are some pictures from my first semester here.

Me and my friend Oskar spent two months last spring cycling in South Korea and Japan.

☝️ Here's us at the starting point in Incheon near Seoul

I've made an archived version of my old website available at old.aapo.kii.so.