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SSC and ispace interviewed by The Downlink Podcast

16:10 October 15, 2024

How do you maintain a secure communications link between Space and Earth. And more specifically, how do you keep a ...

EU Ambassadors visited Esrange

14:10 October 11, 2024

On 9 October, SSC welcomed a large delegation of European ambassadors to Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden. Focusing on ...

Meet us at IAC 2024

09:10 October 9, 2024

Come visit our booth, #MN-E08!...

New Chair of the Board of SSC

16:09 September 30, 2024

In dialogue with the Ministry of Finance, SSC’s Chair of the Board Anna Kinberg Batra has today announced her decision ...

Sentinel 2C launch preparations

09:09 September 11, 2024

The Sentinel-2C satellite lifted off on 5 September. In ESA’s operations center (ESOC) the mission controllers were ready after lots ...

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SSC space services are built on decades of experience and cover many areas.

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Satellite Ground Station Services

SSC offers one of the world’s largest, most flexible and dependable ground station networks, SSC CONNECT.

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Launch Services

We design sounding rocket vehicles, stratospheric balloon systems, testbeds and payloads. From our excellent launching facilities, SSC has launched nearly 600 sounding rockets and provided services to scientists and space organizations worldwide.

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We provide engineering, operations and consultancy services to the international space market and support all project phases, from designing and testing through to launch and operations. Based on more than 25 years of experience, we can offer a wide range of services, carried out by SSC subsidiaries LSE Space GmbH and Aurora Technology.

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Laser communication from space to ground is a cutting-edge technology that will bring significant improvements both regarding data rates but also as a more secure and license-free means of satellite communication.
Hanna Sundberg, SSC Lead System Architect Optical Communications and Project Manager for the NODES project
Hanna Sundberg
Optical technology revolutionizing space communications
We are building a new generation of ground stations. With optical technology, we take satellite communications to a whole new level of efficiency.
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We are seeing new and ambitious missions to clean our orbits from space junk, and programs to monitor the locations of these objects. But this whole industry domain is still in its very early phases.

Travelling at high speed, even the smallest of objects can cause real harm.
Jacob Ask, Space Situational Awareness Program Architect
Jacob Ask
Debris and congestion – a future challenge in Space
While thousands of new satellites will be needed in the coming years to keep up with our modern societies, the congestion of objects in orbit pose the risk of serious collisions. And if not addressed and handled correctly, Earth could soon be surrounded by an impenetrable shield of man-made objects.
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