SpaceTech Entrepreneurship - Specialization
SpaceTech Entrepreneurship
Master the technical and entrepreneurial skills to innovate space technology and turn your startup dream into a reality at DTU.
The new space race is not driven by exploration alone, but by immense business potential. With the global space economy set to triple from $600 billion in 2023 to nearly $1.8 trillion by 2035, there has never been a better time to join this rapidly expanding industry. The growth is accelerated by new technologies, decreasing costs, and a significantly increasing interest from investors and private companies, which opens new opportunities for technology startups in various fields.
With a Space Technology Entrepreneurship specialization, you will get a robust technical profile in Earth and Space Physics and Engineering combined with a skill set in Technology Entrepreneurship. This combination provides you with the insights to innovate new technology within the space industry, while also exploring feasibility studies, market assessments and venture development, all geared towards launching your own startup in the commercial space industry.
Academic focus
As a graduate of SpaceTech Entrepreneurship, you will be able to merge technological development aspects with theoretical and practical perspectives on entrepreneurship. Students are equipped to launch their own startups in the booming commercial space sector or work with groundbreaking ventures in this fast-paced industry.
The technological aspects include the design, development and testing of scientific instrumentation and support systems to ensure a solid engineering core, supported by the entrepreneurship perspective, which includes feasibility studies, opportunity recognition, market assessment and prototype testing.
Within the specialization ‘SpaceTech Entrepreneurship’, it is possible to focus primarily on either instrumentation and/or data processing.
Opportunities
You can tailor your courses and projects to your startup idea, and during your time at DTU, you will have access to a strong space innovation ecosystem that offers mentorship opportunities, technical expertise, innovation challenges, networking events and more.
Upon graduation, you will have the potential to secure funding of up to €200.000 from the ESA Business Incubation Centre located at DTU and benefit from an international network that can lift off your space tech business.
Graduates with a specialization in Space Tech Entrepreneurship will emerge as skilled entrepreneurs, ready to contribute to both space agencies and the commercial space sector.
Requirements for the specialization
Preliminary curriculum, subject to change.
If students - in addition to the general requirements for the programme - meet the following more strict requirements for the selection of courses, the title of the specialization 'SpaceTech Entrepreneurship' will be added to the diploma under the title of the general programme: 'Earth and Space Physics and Engineering'
1. Students must have passed the following mandatory courses in Measurement Technology
| 30300 | Introduction to Satellite Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 30310 | Space Systems Engineering | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
2. Students must have passed at least 10 ECTS programme-specific courses in Measurement Technology from the following list:
| 02456 | Deep learning | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 02506 | Advanced Image Analysis | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 30021 | Digital Instrumentation | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 30320 | Spacecraft Instrumentation Systems | 10 | point | Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 30330 | Image Analysis with Microcomputer | 10 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) and Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17), Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 30340 | Radar and Radiometer Systems | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 30350 | Remote Sensing | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 30510 | GPS, GIS and Setting out | 5 | point | June |
| 30540 | Mapping from Aerial and Satellite Images | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 30545 | Analysis of spatial and temporal data within geoscience | 5 | point | January |
| 30554 | Global Navigation Satellite Systems | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 30555 | Microwave remote sensing models and data | 5 | point | January |
| 30574 | Earth observations for monitoring changes (EO4Change) | 5 | point | June |
| 34269 | Computational imaging and spectroscopy | 5 | point | July |
3. Students must have passed at least 5 ECTS programme-specific courses in Physical Large-Scale Structures and Processes from the following list:
| 25302 | Physical oceanography | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 30428 | Advanced electromagnetics | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 30552 | Satellite Geodesy | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 30745 | Earth and Planetary Magnetism | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 30752 | Cryosphere physics and observation | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 30755 | Climate change - physics and observations | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
4. Students must have passed the following mandatory courses in Entrepreneurship, and ‘38103’ must be completed before ‘38203’.
| 38103 | X-Tech Entrepreneurship | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17), Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 38203 | Due Diligence of New Ventures | 5 | point | January |
5.The topics of both the mandatory project in 'Earth and Space Physics and Engineering' and the Entrepreneurial Master's Thesis must be in the specialization field and should aim to be an equal amount of ‘Technology Entrepreneurship’ and ‘Earth and Space Physics and Engineering’.
6. Students must have passed a sufficient number of elective courses – and preferably selected from the following list of the recommended elective courses, aiming to choose at least half in ‘Earth and Space Physics and Engineering’ - to bring the total number of ECTS points of the entire study up to 120:
| 02456 | Deep learning | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 02506 | Advanced Image Analysis | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 30021 | Digital Instrumentation | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 30320 | Spacecraft Instrumentation Systems | 10 | point | Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 30330 | Image Analysis with Microcomputer | 10 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) and Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17), Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 30340 | Radar and Radiometer Systems | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 30350 | Remote Sensing | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 30510 | GPS, GIS and Setting out | 5 | point | June |
| 30540 | Mapping from Aerial and Satellite Images | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 30545 | Analysis of spatial and temporal data within geoscience | 5 | point | January |
| 30554 | Global Navigation Satellite Systems | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 30555 | Microwave remote sensing models and data | 5 | point | January |
| 30574 | Earth observations for monitoring changes (EO4Change) | 5 | point | June |
| 34269 | Computational imaging and spectroscopy | 5 | point | July |
| 38102 | Technology Entrepreneurship | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 38201 | Entrepreneurial Life Skills | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 38202 | Entrepreneurial Leadership Journey | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
Recommended study plan (Summer Start)
Data Analysis and Modeling in Geoscience... Data Analysis and Modeling in Geoscience and Astrophysics
Measurement Technologies in Earth and... Measurement Technologies in Earth and Space Physics
Projects in Earth & Space Physics and... Projects in Earth & Space Physics and Engineering
Core Competence Courses and/or Electives
Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical... Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation)
Core Competence Courses and/or Electives
Core Competence Courses and/or Electives
Master's Thesis
Recommended study plan (Winter Start)
Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical... Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation)
Core Competence Courses and/or Electives
Data Analysis and Modeling in Geoscience... Data Analysis and Modeling in Geoscience and Astrophysics
Measurement Technologies in Earth and... Measurement Technologies in Earth and Space Physics
Projects in Earth & Space Physics and... Projects in Earth & Space Physics and Engineering
Core Competence Courses and/or Electives
Master's Thesis
Specializations are merely recommended ways of choosing the courses in the curriculum. Applicants are not admitted to a specialization but to the programme and it is possible to choose among all the courses in the curriculum following the directions given. However, if a specialization has been fulfilled the title of the specialization may be added to the diploma.
Head of Specialization
Lars Alkærsig Associate Professor, Head of Education Phone: +45 45254534 Mobile: +45 93511993 lalk@dtu.dk