ROCKET & BALLOON ACTIVITIES
SSC’s launch facility, Esrange Space Center, is located about 40 km east of Kiruna. Here you can find rocket launchers for various types of sounding rockets, a balloon launch pad with the size of 40 football fields, a restaurant and a hotel for the scientists and technicians who come here from all over the world. Launches can also take place elsewhere depending on the scientific mission requirements.
47+
Years of experience
575
Rockets Launched
665
Balloons Launched
118
Payloads Delivered
Upcoming & Ongoing
Completed
MAPHEUS 10
Every year the German Aerospace Center (DLR) launches a MAPHEUS research rocket with a payload developed and supervised by the […]
BEXUS 30/31
The Bexus 30/31 balloon launch campaign takes place between 24th of September and 4th of October 2021. Distributed on the […]
CNES 2021
A total of four flights were operated on the Esrange by CNES during August, starting on 13 August. On board […]
HEMERA ZPB2021
HEMERA is a balloon infrastructure project, funded by the European Commission within its programme Horizon2020. Horizon Europe is the EU’s key […]
BOLT
The objective of the BOLT (Boundary Layer Transition) project is to experimentally investigate the hypersonic boundary layer transition mechanisms from […]
