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REXUS 13 launched from Esrange Space Center

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:32:00 +0200

On Thursday, May 9, at 04.00 UTC the student rocket REXUS 13 was launched from Esrange Space Center, Kiruna.

LSE Space Middle East at MilSatCom

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:19:00 +0200

Nicolas Stephan, LSE Space Middle East General Manager, speaks at MilSatCom Asia in Singapore on 15-16 May.

Successful launch of REXUS 14

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:24:00 +0200

Today, at 04.00 UTC the student rocket REXUS 14 was launched from Esrange Space Center, Kiruna.

New members elected to SSC’s Board of Directors

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:33:00 +0200

Two new board members, Håkan Syrén and John Stuart, were elected to the SSC board at the annual general meeting. Håkan Syrén is Sweden’s former commander in chief and former chairman of the EU Military Committee. John Stuart is the business development director at the Canadian space company COMDEV International. John Stuart is a British citizen and has for more than 25 years held senior positions in the international market for space products andservices. - With Håkan Syrén’s and John Stuart's entry on the…

EUMETSAT awards LSE Space with a Programme Management contract

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:23:00 +0200

LSE Space will provide EUMETSAT's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Division with Programme Management support.

Finnish Border Guard benefit from the upgrade of their two MSS 6000 systems

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:34:00 +0200

Finnish Border Guard operators during the classroom part of the operator training led by Daniel Siberg, SSC The upgraded MSS 6000 systems have now been taken into use by the Finnish Border Guard (FBG) after successful acceptance tests. SSC staff has recently visited the FBG base in Turku, Finland and provided additional training on the new features in the system, to ensure the FBG will be able to make full use of the new capabilities at their hands. The Finnish Border Guard (FBG) operates twoDornier 228 ai…

TEXUS 51 campaign cancelled

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:30:00 +0200

The TEXUS 51 campaign has been cancelled due to technical reasons. For more information please contact: Mr Mikael Töyrä, SSC Project Manager, mikael.toyra@sscspace.com

TEXUS 50, launched from Esrange Space Center!

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:28:00 +0200

Around six minutes of microgravity

ESA ISS Award 2013 goes to LSE Space

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:48:00 +0200

Jahel Costa Novoa of LSE Space received the ESA ISS Award 2013 for her contribution to the Columbus Project.

Call for General Meeting 2013

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:51:00 +0100

SSC's Annual General Meeting 2013 will be held on 26 April at the head office in Solna. Call for Annual General Meeting, in Swedish Nominering av styrelse och revisor i SSC samt förslag till arvodering

ESOC awards LSE Space the Galileo Spacon Team service.

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:05:00 +0100

LSE Space will provide the Galileo Spacecraft Controller (Spacon) Team service to the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany).

Aurora and LSE Space excel in ESA Key Performance Indicators.

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:20:00 +0100

ESA released the results of the first period under the ESTEC Directorates Manpower Frame Contracts. Aurora together with LSE Space received excellent results. ESA published rankings for two of our activity domains. In Earth Observation Engineering Aurora is granted Preferred Supplier status for the current period. Aurora was ranked as second best supplier for ESAC in Spain.

Strategic Security Officer to join executive committee of SSC

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:35:00 +0100

To meet the strategic security challenges in the global environment, Stefan Gustafsson has been appointed Strategic Security Officer and member of the SSC executive committee.

Strong earnings improvement for SSC

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:48:00 +0100

SSC (Swedish Space Corporation) made, during 2012, its best operating results since 2003. Behind the development are increases in sales and efficiency improvements generating cost cuts.

NanoSpace has a new office address

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:17:00 +0100

NanoSpace moves to a new office building, at Dag Hammarskjölds väg 36B. This is only one block away from their former office and still within Uppsala Science Park. The new office provides more space to accommodate new recruitments that are ongoing and also a larger and better equipped lab for assembly and testing of our products.

ECAPS signs first U.S. commercial contract with Skybox Imaging for complete propulsion system

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:05:00 +0100

ECAPS, an SSC Group company, today announced its first commercial flight contract in the U.S., with Skybox Imaging (Skybox), an emerging provider of timely imagery services. ECAPS will design and manufacture a complete High Performance Green Propulsion (HPGP) system for Skybox’s third Earth observation satellite.

Successful flight acceptance test of the upgraded MSS 6000 for the Finnish Border Guard

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:52:00 +0100

On December 14 we concluded the successful flight acceptance tests of the upgraded MSS 6000 system on the first Dornier 228 operated by the Finnish Border Guard (FBG). The tests were performed at Bromma Airport in Stockholm. Operators and pilots from the Finnish Border Guard participated in the tests.

SSC appoints Håkan Syrén as Senior Advisor

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:36:00 +0100

Strategic security issues are becoming increasingly important for SSC's customers. SSC's
operations comprise deliveries of advanced space services to civil customers as
well as customers within the defense sector all over the world.

LSE Space holds a seminar at Etisalat Academy, Dubai.

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:03:00 +0100

"Evolution of Satellite Industry in MENA Region"

MAPHEUS 3, successfully launched!

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:34:00 +0100

The third flight

Santiago station awarded for shuttle support

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:56:00 +0100

A diploma and a medallion have been presented to the Santiago Station personnel by NASA and ITT EXELIS, in recognition of the excellent contribution as a valued team member in support of NASA’s human spaceflight programs. The Santiago Satellite Station provided support to the NASA Space Shuttle Missions from the first launch in 1982. About SSC Chile

Successful launch of REXUS 11

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:21:00 +0100

Today, at 10.45 UTC the student rocket REXUS 11 took aloft from Esrange Space Center, Kiruna.

SSC appoints Anders Jörle as Vice President Public Affairs

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:44:00 +0100

Anders Jörle has been appointed as Vice President Public Affairs and member of the Executive Committee for the SSC group. Anders is currently Director and Head of Press Unit at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. "I am very pleased to welcome Anders to SSC and I am convinced that Anders with his extensive experience will contribute substantially to SSC's future development and expansion", says Stefan Gardefjord, President and CEO, SSC. Anders Jörle assumes his position on February 1st 2013. Point of…

LSE Space sponsors hi-tech event in Bavaria.

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:41:00 +0100

LSE Space is proud to co-sponsor this year's celebration event "75. Forschungsstandort Oberpfaffenhofen".

ECAPS contracted to provide green propulsion to Myriad Evolutions platform

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:17:00 +0100

ECAPS is contracted to support CNES with High Performance Green Propulsion for the new Myriade Evolutions platform, under the bi-lateral agreement recently signed between the Agencies, CNES in France and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. More information (in Swedish): Swedish National Space Board About ECAPS