Researchers from around the world come here to conduct research on board sounding rockets, high altitude balloons, satellites and with help from ground-based instruments.
Space engineering has a direct useful impact on society, such as TV-broadcasting, weather forecasts, GPS navigation as well as environmental and climate observations.
In the long run, the activities contribute to answers to some of the fundamental questions of how our planet came into being, our existence as well as the question of life on other planets.
Esrange also has one of the world’s most active satellite stations for image-, TV-, weather-, GPS-, environmental- and other data receiving, as well as satellite control.
The facility is located 45 km outside Kiruna. Here you can learn more about sounding rockets, stratospheric balloons used for research, as well as satellites used for communication and observing the Earth.