Pekka Janhunen
Pekka Janhunen is a Finnish space physicist,
astrobiologist, and inventor. He is a research manager at the
Finnish Meteorological Institute's Space and Earth Observation Centre and a visiting professor at the
University of Tartu, Estonia. He is also senior technical advisor at Aurora Propulsion Technologies, a startup company operating in the space sector. Janhunen studied theoretical physics at the
University of Helsinki and earned his Ph.D. in space plasma physics simulations in 1994. He has also published a theory on the origin of multicellular life. Janhunen is best known for his
electric solar wind sail invention.
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