Swedish National Space Board

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Swedish National Space Board

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Formation	1972
Legal status	Government Organisation
Purpose	Manage Swedish state-financed space activities
Location	Stockholm, Sweden
Region served	Sweden
Director-General	Olle Norberg
Budget	928 633 000 SEK (2014)
Staff	18 staff
Website	www.rymdstyrelsen.se

The Swedish National Space Board (SNSB, Swedish: Rymdstyrelsen) is a Government agency in Sweden 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 eighteen employees (2014) and its office is situated in the Solna Municipality, within Stockholm.

Space programme

The Swedish space programme is mostly carried out through international cooperation. Out of a yearly budget of approximately 900 Mkr (100 M€), about 70% is used to support ESA programmes of importance to Sweden. The programme has included a sequence of satellite missions, both national ones and in cooperation with other nations.

In February 2013, a government audit was released by the Swedish National Audit Office which concluded that "Swedish space investment is distributed among multiple organizations that operate as stovepipes with no real communication between them and no common ambition." While approximately 1 billion Swedish krona (US$158 million) is spent each year on Swedish space initiatives, the audit report calls for additional "government oversight of the European Space Agency (ESA) and a review of the Swedish Space Corporation's structure and mission."

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

• Swedish Space Corporation
• Esrange
• Swedish Institute of Space Physics
• European Space Agency
• Government agencies in Sweden

External links

• Official website