Swedish National Space Board

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The Swedish National Space Board (SNSB), or Rymdstyrelsen in Swedish, is a Swedish government agency operating under the Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications. For research, it receives fundings from Ministry of Education and Science. SNSB distributes government grants to research and development, initiates research and development in space and remote sensing, and is the Swedish contact in international cooperation. SNSB has 17 employees and its office is situated in Solna, in the Stockholm urban area.

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[edit] Space Programme

The Swedish space programme is mostly carried out through international cooperation. Out of a yearly budget of approximately 800 Mkr (70 M€), about 60% are used for support to ESA programmes of importance to Sweden. The programme has included a sequence of satellite missions, both national ones and in cooperation with other nations.

[edit] Satellite Missions

  • Viking (1986-1987), to explore plasma processes in the magnetosphere and the ionosphere
  • Freja (1992-1995), a second Space Physics mission
  • Astrid 1 (1995), Microsatellite for Space Physics
  • Astrid 2 (1998-1999), Microsatellite for Space Physics
  • Odin (2001-), Swedish-Canadian-Finnish-French satellite for Astronomy and Atmospheric Chemistry.
  • Prisma satellites (in preparation), technology test of constellation flight

[edit] Directors

Years Name
1972- Hans Håkansson
1979-1989 Jan Stiernstedt
1989-1998 Kerstin Fredga
1998-2009 Per Tegnér
2009- Olle Norberg

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[edit] External links

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