Research Facilities

At 4DSpace Research Group, we have built several observational facilities and developed unique instruments to understand instabilities and turbulence in the polar ionosphere.

Troll Station

More about Troll station.

We invite you to read the interesting travel notes "Journey to Antarctica" by Prof. Wojciech J. Miloch:

  • Journey to Antarctica
  • Journey to Antarctica - second update
  • Journey to Antarctica - part three
  • Journey to Antarctica - part four
  • Finishing our work in Antarctica
  • What happened in between in Antarctica?
  • A physicist in Antarctica
  • Settling in at Tor station
  • Birds in the icecold and life at a field-station
  • Heading back home

    • Svalbard

    More about Svalbard.

    Multi-Needle Langmuir Probes (MNLP)

    Multi-Needle Langmuir Probes (MNLP) measure electron density in plasma on various space probes, e.g. on the ICI rocket series.

    Plasma Chamber

    For testing of new plasma instruments the 4DSpace Research Group operates the "Space Simulation Chamber" (SSC). In this 4 500 l tank, space instrumentation experiences ionospheric plasma conditions similar to those on low-Earth orbit (LEO). The streaming plasma is generated by a RF plasma device from ThrustMe. The SSC is equipped with an array of diagnostic devices, as well as a set of linear drives from igus that allow the operator to move equipment within the tank while plasma is being generated.

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    Department of Physics at the University of Oslo, Norway