Aalto University

Aalto University is a Finnish university whose School of Electrical Engineering hosts space-science and space-technology education and research, including the student-built Aalto-1 satellite project. It participates in the international SpaceMaster double-degree programme, offering second-year tracks in Space Technology and Space Robotics and Automation. Research spans small satellites, Earth observation, space instrumentation, radio astronomy and space weather. Aalto designed and built Foresail-1p, launched on the Transporter-15 mission on 28 November 2025, and operates its ground station at Otaniemi. The science mission is a collaboration with the University of Helsinki, University of Turku and Finnish Meteorological Institute. It carries Turku’s PATE particle telescope for radiation measurements and FMI’s Plasma Brake experiment, intended to demonstrate tether-based deorbiting through interaction with ionospheric plasma.