With the aid of rockets, the means are available for experiments in a weightless environment. In addition, the Institute for Space Physics, IRF, accommodates a vacuum chamber where a space environment can be simulated if desired.
Esrange Space Center, SSC, provides expertise within rocket launches, balloon flights, aerospace vehicle testing, satellite control and aerospace service systems. SSC has 40 years of experience of aerospace business and is considered as an innovative and reliable company, always ready for new challenges.
Although closely situated to the wide range of service and entertainment choices available in Kiruna, Esrange can simultaneously offer enormous uninhabited areas for retrieval of the equipment that is sent up. This means that, according to the clients’ wishes, target areas can be constructed and remain unchanged for years in order to, for example, optimize the testing of new types of sensors targeting the same object.
Spaceport Sweden represents the combined expertise of several Kiruna–based Swedish companies whose successful development has earned them international respect. Their reputation for service consistently attracts attention with regards to aerospace operations, testing and tourism.
Spaceport Sweden is a co-operation between Swedish Space Corporation, ICEHOTEL, LFV Group and Kiruna’s business-development company Progressum.
The aim of Spaceport Sweden is to make Kiruna Europe’s first and most obvious place for personal suborbital space flight.
Virgin Galactic is the world’s first commercial space line that will give ordinary people the opportunity to become non-professional astronauts and they have chosen Spaceport Sweden as one of their operational partners.
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