20 space organisations in Sweden

Swedish-British small satellite company — builds smallsats and subsystems and sells space data services, with sites in Uppsala, Glasgow, Delft and Cape Town.

Swedish aerospace engine manufacturer (formerly Volvo Aero) — produces Vulcain and Vinci turbines and nozzles for Ariane 6 in Trollhättan.

Develops satellites, space systems and optical instruments for science and Earth observation missions.

Swedish satellite communications provider — operates the Ovzon 3 GEO satellite and offers mobile SATCOM-as-a-Service mainly to defence and government users.

Swedish satcom terminal maker — develops ultraportable Ku-band and multi-orbit satellite terminals for rapid broadband connectivity in the field.

Provides launch services, ground station operations and satellite services globally.

Stockholm design and space technology transfer firm — designs for space and extreme environments and is ESA's technology transfer broker for Sweden.

Swedish space computing company — supplies edge computing hardware and software for onboard data processing on satellites, flying since 2016.

Swedish satellite ground segment company — operates a ground station site near Piteå and offers antenna hosting and ground-station-as-a-service.

Swedish Earth observation startup — designs the AlertSat optical smallsat constellation with on-orbit AI change detection for emergency response.

Swedish satellite ground segment startup — develops software-defined modems and transceivers for satellite ground stations; spun out of LTU and SSC.

Swedish space propulsion startup — develops green modular propane/nitrous oxide thrusters (1–200 N) for small satellites; ESA BIC Sweden incubatee.

International ionospheric research organisation — operates incoherent scatter radars, including EISCAT_3D, in Sweden, Norway and Finland from Kiruna.

Swedish national radio astronomy infrastructure hosted by Chalmers — operates radio telescopes and a geodetic VLBI, GNSS and time station at Onsala.

Swedish government research institute — studies space plasma, atmospheric physics and the solar system, with head office at the Kiruna space campus.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology space centre — coordinates space research and education and runs the MIST student CubeSat project in Stockholm.

Luleå University of Technology space research centre — runs space engineering research and Sweden's space engineering master's programme at Space Campus Kiruna.

Sweden's national space agency — funds space research, manages ESA contributions and operates Esrange Space Center.

Swedish regional space cluster in western Sweden — connects companies, Chalmers and other research bodies to build a new space ecosystem around Gothenburg.

KTH student rocketry association in Stockholm — designs and launches student rockets and was the first Swedish team at the European Rocketry Challenge.