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Europe’s first steps to master rocket recovery and re-use – happening soon at Esrange

09:03 March 21, 2025

With the Themis project, Europe will learn to operate a prototype of reusable launcher first stage. At SSC’s Esrange Space ...

SSC awarded contracts for EU’s Earth Observation program Copernicus

10:03 March 19, 2025

SSC has been awarded several additional satellite ground station contracts by ESA for Copernicus, EU’s Earth Observation program. The new ...

Touchdown: Firefly’s Blue Ghost completes Moon landing with communication support from SSC

09:03 March 14, 2025

With Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) as a key supplier, providing spacecraft tracking and communications services throughout the mission, Firefly Aerospace’ ...

Student rockets REXUS-33 and -34 launched from Esrange

10:03 March 13, 2025

On 11 March at 10:15 AM (CET), the REXUS–33 student rocket was launched from Esrange Space Center. Two days later, on 13 March at 06:23 AM (CET), the ...

SSC Space Conference 2025: and it’s a wrap!

10:02 February 21, 2025

The SSC Space Conference 2025, held from February 18th to 20th, brought together key customers, industry leaders, and experts to ...

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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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