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ArianeGroup Completes Second Themis Wet Dress Rehearsal
European Spaceflight · 7 Oct 2026
The European Space Agency announced that ArianeGroup and Swedish Space Corporation completed a second wet dress rehearsal of the Themis reusable rocket demonstrator at Esrange in Sweden. ESA announced the completion of t...
DLR’s Suborbital MAPHEUS-17 Mission to Launch as Early as 1 October
European Spaceflight · 19 Sep 2026
The German aerospace agency DLR’s MAPHEUS-17 suborbital research mission is slated to launch from Sweden’s Esrange Space Center as early as 1 October. In a 16 September update, the agency confirmed that several key prefl...
ArianeGroup Completes Themis Wet Dress Rehearsal
European Spaceflight · 30 Jul 2026
ArianeGroup has completed a wet dress rehearsal of the Themis reusable booster demonstrator at the Esrange Space Centre in Sweden, providing the first substantive update on the vehicle’s test campaign in more than ten mo...
SSC Space Launches Red Kite-Powered Sounding Rocket Carrying 12 Experiments
European Spaceflight · 3 Jun 2026
SSC Space launched its SubOrbital Express-5 mission on 31 May from the Esrange Space Centre in northern Sweden. The rocket carried 12 individual experiments, one of which examined the effects of microgravity on red hair...
Swedish Space Agency Signs Agreement with FAA on Launch Licensing
European Spaceflight · 15 Apr 2026
The Swedish National Space Agency has signed an agreement with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to cooperate on the licensing of US rocket launches from Sweden’s Esrange Space Centre. While the Esrange Space...
Near real-time payload data delivery with SSC Space Go
SpaceNews · 13 Apr 2026
Easy access to space depends as much on ground communications as on launch availability or satellite design. In a quickly growing commercial space market, an increasing number of operational services […]
SSC Space Opens Orbital Launch Control Center at Esrange
European Spaceflight · 19 Feb 2026
SSC Space has officially opened the Esrange Space Center’s new Orbital Launch Control Center, which will be used to manage future rocket launches from the facility. The Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden has hosted...
Isar Aerospace expands engine and stage testing at Esrange
SpaceDaily · 8 Feb 2026
Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 Isar Aerospace is expanding its test operations at Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden, by establishing a second test site in cooperation with SSC Space. The new infrastructure is in...
SSC ground stations to support NASA PExT wideband Ka band test
SpaceDaily · 30 Dec 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 30, 2025 Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) will provide direct-to-Earth forward and return Ka-band links through its global ground station network to support NASA's Polylingual Experimental Termin...
SSC expands ground station access with SSC Go service for small satellites
SpaceDaily · 4 Dec 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 28, 2025 SSC has introduced SSC Go, a ground segment service built around a global network of 4 meter class antennas operating in S band, X band and Ka band for Low Earth Orbit missions. The ser...
SSC introduces streamlined ground station service
SpaceNews · 20 Nov 2025
Swedish Space Corp. has rolled out a new ground station service designed to provide streamlined support for operators of small satellites and constellations.
Swedish Military to Serve as Anchor Customer for Esrange Space Center?
European Spaceflight · 4 Jan 2025
The Swedish Armed Forces, through the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), have tasked the Swedish Space Corporation with creating a capability to launch satellites into orbit from the Esrange Space Center. The...
Swedish and Norwegian Companies Secure Key NASA Contracts
European Spaceflight · 28 Dec 2024
Norway’s Kongsberg Satellite Services and the Swedish Space Corporation are among four companies selected by NASA to support the expansion of its Near Space Network’s commercial direct-to-Earth mission-critical communica...
U.S. Space Force launches expedited GPS mission using Falcon 9 rocket
Spaceflight Now · 17 Dec 2024
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) and the Space Operations Command (SpOC) shifted the GPS 3 Space Vehicle 07 spacecraft to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket due to dela...
Themis Reusable Booster Demonstrator Hop Tests Delayed Once Again
European Spaceflight · 15 Jul 2024
The initial hop tests of the ArianeGroup-developed, ESA-funded Themis reusable booster demonstrator have slipped once again. The first is now expected no earlier than 2025. In a May 2024 presentation given at the Interna...
Firefly Will Launch its Alpha Rocket From Esrange in Sweden
European Spaceflight · 27 Jun 2024
Firefly Aerospace has signed a collaborative agreement with the Swedish Space Corporation to launch its Alpha rocket from Esrange Space Centre in Sweden. The Esrange Space Centre was built in the 1960s and has hosted hun...
Sweden’s SSC Tapped to Provide Ground Support for US Lunar Lander
European Spaceflight · 26 Jun 2024
The Swedish Space Cooperation (SSC) has signed a collaboration agreement with the US arm of the Japanese space company ispace to provide ground services for its upcoming Mission 3 flight to the surface of the Moon. Expec...
SSC Returns Esrange Launch Tower to Service After Fire
European Spaceflight · 6 Dec 2023
The Swedish Space Corporation has successfully launched the first rocket from its newly refurbished Skylark launch tower that was damaged by a fire in 2021. MAIUS-2 was launched at 07:30 UTC on 2 December aboard a two-st...
Swedish Space Corporation Opens Italian Subsidiary
European Spaceflight · 10 May 2023
The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) announced 10 May that it had opened up a new subsidiary in Italy. The new subsidiary which is called SSC Space Italy (Swedish Space Corporation Space Italy is an interesting way to go)...
Swedish Space Corporation CEO Retires, Replacement Appointed
The Launch Pad · 4 May 2023
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has announced Charlotta Sund as its new President and CEO. Sund, who will take office in autumn 2023, will replace Stefan Gardefjord, who retires after serving the company for 12 years.