Swedish National Space Board
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The Swedish National Space Board (SNSB, Swedish: Rymdstyrelsen) is a Swedish government agency operating under the Swedish 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 seventeen employees (2011) and its office is situated in the Solna Municipality, within the Stockholm urban area.[citation needed]
Space Programme
The Swedish space programme is mostly carried out through international cooperation. Out of a yearly budget of approximately 800 Mkr (80 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.
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 (2010—), technology test of constellation flight
Directors
| Years |
Name |
| 1972–1979 |
Hans Håkansson |
| 1979–1989 |
Jan Stiernstedt |
| 1989–1998 |
Kerstin Fredga |
| 1998–2009 |
Per Tegnér |
| 2009— |
Olle Norberg |
See also
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Categories:
- Government agencies of Sweden
- Science and technology in Sweden
- Swedish space programme
- Space agencies
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