Swedish National Space Agency
A central governmental agency under the Ministry of Education and Research
The Swedish National Space Agency, SNSA, is a central governmental agency under the Ministry of Education and Research. SNSA is responsible for national and international activities relating to space and remote sensing, primarily research and development.
SNSA has three main tasks:
- to distribute government grants for space research, technology development and remote sensing activities
- to initiate research and development in Space and Remote Sensing areas
- to act as Swedish contact for international co-operation
The Swedish space programme is carried out by means of extensive international cooperation, in particular through Sweden´s membership of the European Space Agency, ESA. SNSA's responsability for international activities includes the Swedish involvement in ESA as well as bilateral and multilateral cooperation for space missions.
. Most of the activities funded by the Swedish National Space Agency are carried out in cooperation with other countries.
SNSA was known as SNSB (Swedish National Space Board) until 2018.
Strategies
The Government has presented A strategy for Swedish space activities (2017/18:259), that now forms a platform for Sweden’s long-term work on space activities. The strategy includes an overall description of the areas the Government wishes to prioritise and the targets that exist for the respective
areas. From this the SNSA has written our own strategy to meet the national strategy.
The Swedish National Space Agency in numbers
- Funding from the Swedish Government (total 2023): SEK 1,3 billion (rounded of)
- Distributed as such:
- ESA SEK 914 million*
- National SEK 218 million
- Esrange** SEK 58 million
- Distributed as such:
- Additional governmental appropriation for administration: SEK 47 million