The Swedish National Space Board (SNSB, Swedish: Rymdstyrelsen) is a Swedish government agency operating under the Swedish Ministry of Education and Science. SNSB distributes government grants to research and development, initiates research and development in space and remote sensing, and is the Swedish contact in international cooperation. SNSB has seventeen employees (2011) and its office is situated in the Solna Municipality, within the Stockholm urban area.
The Swedish space programme is mostly carried out through international cooperation. Out of a yearly budget of approximately 800 Mkr (80 M€), about 60% is used to support ESAprogrammes of importance to Sweden. The programme has included a sequence of satellite missions, both national ones and in cooperation with other nations.
In February 2013, a government audit was released by the Swedish National Audit Office which concluded that "Swedish space investment is distributed among multiple organizations that operate as stovepipes with no real communication between them and no common ambition." While approximately 1 billion Swedish krona (US$158 million) is spent each year on Swedish space initiatives, the audit report calls for additional "government oversight of the European Space Agency (ESA) and a review of the Swedish Space Corporation's structure and mission."
Satellite missions Viking (1986−1987), to explore plasma processes in the magnetosphere and the ionosphere Freja (1992−1995), a second space physics mission
Astrid 1 (1995), microsatellite for space physics
Astrid 2 (1998–1999), microsatellite for space physics
Odin (2001−), Swedish-Canadian-Finnish-French satellite for astronomy and atmospheric chemistry
Prisma (2010−), technology test of constellation flight
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