The Swedish National Space Board (SNSB) 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

Remote sensing

Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon, without making physical contact with the object. In modern usage, the term generally refers to the use of aerial sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth by means of propagated signals Remote sensing...

, and is the Swedish contact in international cooperation. SNSB has seventeen employees (2011) and its office is situated in the Solna Municipality

Solna Municipality

Solna Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, located just north of the capital Stockholm. Its seat is located in the 'city' of Solna....

, within the Stockholm urban area

Stockholm urban area

The Stockholm urban area is the largest and most populous of the statistical localities or urban areas in Sweden. It has no administrative function of its own, but constitutes a continuous multimunicipal built-up area, which extends into 11 municipalities in Stockholm County. It contains the...

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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
  Viking (satellite)
  Viking was Sweden's first satellite. It was launched on an Ariane 1 rocket as a piggyback payload together with the French satellite SPOT 1, on February 22, 1986. Operations ended on May 12, 1987...
  
    (1986–1987), to explore plasma processes in the magnetosphere and the ionosphere
• Freja
  Freja (satellite)
  FREJA was a Swedish satellite developed by the Swedish Space Corporation on behalf of the Swedish National Space Board. It was piggyback launched on a Long March 2C launch vehicle from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China on October 6, 1992. The satellite total cost was 19 million U.S...
  
   (1992–1995), a second Space Physics mission
• Astrid 1
  Astrid (satellites)
  Astrid-1 and Astrid-2 were two microsatellites designed and developed by Swedish Space Corporation on behalf of the Swedish National Space Board. They were piggyback launched on a Cosmos-3M launch vehicle from Plesetsk, Russia...
  
   (1995), Microsatellite for Space Physics
• Astrid 2
  Astrid (satellites)
  Astrid-1 and Astrid-2 were two microsatellites designed and developed by Swedish Space Corporation on behalf of the Swedish National Space Board. They were piggyback launched on a Cosmos-3M launch vehicle from Plesetsk, Russia...
  
   (1998–1999), Microsatellite for Space Physics
• Odin
  Odin (satellite)
  Odin is a Swedish satellite working in two disciplines; astrophysics and aeronomy, and it was named after god Odin. Within the field of astrophysics, Odin is used in the study of star formation...
  
   (2001—), Swedish-Canadian-Finnish-French satellite for Astronomy and Atmospheric Chemistry.
• Prisma
  Prisma
  Prisma is a satellite project led by the Swedish Space Corporation which consist of two satellites that fly in formation.It was launched, along with the PICARD spacecraft, on 15 June 2010 on a Dnepr-1 launcher from Dombarovskiy Cosmodrome, near Yasny, Russia...
  
   (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

• Swedish Space Corporation
  Swedish Space Corporation
  The Swedish Space Corporation is a comprehensive space company covering the entire field, from the definition of innovative business concepts and space projects to the development, tests and operation of the systems....
  
  
• Esrange
  Esrange
  Esrange Space Center is a rocket range and research centre located outside the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. It is a base for scientific research with high altitude balloons, investigation of the aurora borealis, sounding rocket launches, and satellite tracking, among other things...
  
  
• Swedish Institute of Space Physics
  Swedish Institute of Space Physics
  The Swedish Institute of Space Physics or Institutet för rymdfysik is a Swedish government agency. The institute's primary task is to carry out basic research, education and associated observatory activities in space physics, space technology and atmospheric physics.-Foundation:The IRF was founded...
  
  
• European Space Agency
  European Space Agency
  The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states...
  
  
• Government agencies in Sweden
  Government agencies in Sweden
  The Government agencies in Sweden are state controlled organizations who act independently to carry out the policies of the Swedish Government. The Government Ministries are relatively small and merely policy-making organizations, allowed to control agencies by policy decisions but not by direct...