Sponsors – European Space Camp

CURRENT SPONSORS

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Norwegian Space Center

The Norwegian Space Centre (NSC) is a governmental agency under the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The headquarter is located in Oslo. NSC promotes the development, co-ordination and evaluation of national space activities as well as supports Norwegian interests in the European Space Agency. The goals of NSC are to create growth in the space sector, meet national user needs, attain a leading position in space research and maintain a leading role in space-related ground infrastructure.

Andøya Space Center

Andøya Space Center (ASC) is the world's northernmost permanent launch facility for sounding rockets and scientific balloons and is responsible for all scientific-related balloon and rocket operations in Norwegian territory. ASC provides complete services for launch, operations, data acquisition, recovery and ground instrumentation support. The space center has conducted 698 rocket launches and hosted scientists and engineers from more than 70 institutes and universities.

Kongsberg Space & Surveillance

Kongsberg Space & Surveillance is a division of Kongsberg Defence Systems, and delivers a broad spectrum of equipment, systems and services related to space and maritime surveillance customers in more than 40 countries. The portfolio includes equipment and components for the European heavy-lift launcher Ariane 5, communication satellites, earth observation satellites and scientific space probes. The division is a world leading supplier of satellite ground stations for downloading and processing satellite data, as well as a supplier of satellite services from ground stations at Svalbard in the Arctic, the Antarctic and numerous other locations. The division is also a provider of maritime domain awareness systems and control centers for maritime surveillance, where integration of terrestrial and satellite data constitutes an important component.

The Space & Surveillance division is also Norway’s largest supplier of equipment and services to the European Space Agency (ESA) and consists of five operational units;
Kongsberg Space
Kongsberg Norspace AS
Kongsberg Norcontrol IT AS
Kongsberg Spacetec AS
Kongsberg Satellite Services AS (50% ownership)

Kongsberg Space & Surveillance is a part of the Kongsberg Group, an international technology corporation with more than 7200 employees in 25 countries.

NAMMO Raufoss

Nammo is a manufacturer of military and civilian ammunition, the headquarter is located in Raufoss, Norway. The Nammo Group has subsidiaries in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, USA, Australia and Canada and is owned fifty-fifty by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Finnish defence company Patria Oyj.

Nammo has nearly five decades of experience in developing and producing different rocket motors for missiles and space applications. Nammo has for instance delivered rocket motors and components to Ariane 5 since the nineties.

Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

FFI (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment) is the prime institution responsible for defence related research in Norway. Its principal mission is to carry out research to meet the requirements of the Armed Forces. FFI also serves in an advisory capacity to the Ministry of Defence and the Norwegian Armed Forces. Particularly the Institute has developments in science and military technology in focus, which have an impact on political security and defence planning.

Kongsberg Satellite Services

KSAT (Kongsberg Satellite Systems) is a world leading provider of satellite ground station services and satellite based maritime monitoring services . KSAT is a commercial Norwegian enterprise with the head office located in Tromsø. Today KSAT supports more than 100 different satellite missions and has a world-wide customer base. KSAT owns and operates a truly Global Ground Station Network, consisting of 20 different locations. The KSAT Ground Station Network includes the world’s largest Polar ground station in Svalbard, at 78°N, and the Antarctic Troll Station, at 72°S.

Validé

Validé is the national ESA Technology Transfer Broker in Norway helping to facilitate technology transfers between space and non-space industries via spin-out (space to non-space) and spin-in (non-space to space) activities. Available technologies, ongoing activities and call for demonstrator projects are available on the ESA Technology Transfer pages and on spacetransfer.no.

Validé also provides modern technology transfer services and operates a highly successful and effective innovation support system. Validé powers the innovation ecosystem in the Rogaland Region by providing a full service portfolio through its business units: technology transfer, startup incubator and investment and through various programs such as accelerators, student incubator and clusters.

Tekna

Tekna – The Norwegian Society of Graduate Technical and Scientific Professionals, is the largest society for academics in Norway within science and technology. As a member, you can always count on Teknas support, be it on a legal issue, in pay negotiations or to safeguard your conditions on employment. In addition, you will enjoy the benefits of courses, take part in various professional and social events and excellent insurance cover. Tekna has some 65,000 members, and over 11,000 student members.

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo (UiO) is Norway’s first university, with around 30.000 students. Cosmology, the sun, astroparticle physics and space weather are among the space related themes studied in Oslo. Moreover, the Department of Physics, University of Oslo has been active in instrumentation of sounding rockets since 1962, and these activities formed the basis for participating in ESA cornerstone missions like Cluster, Rosetta and BepiColombo. UiO is in charge of the ICI-series of sounding rockets for exploration the auroral cusp above Svalbard. With the rocket program, UiO aims to be at the forefront of measurements of plasma processes, to explore waves, instabilities and turbulence phenomena that apply to the solar effects on space weather and climate on Earth. UiO has a world lead in miniaturized plasma probes for CubeSats, that will fly on our own student satellite named CubeSTAR, and on the European QB50 satellites.

Telenor Satellite

Telenor Satellite is a major European satellite provider of broadcast and data communication services for customers in the broadcast, maritime, and oil and gas markets.

Telenor Satellite owns and operates the THOR satellite fleet, positioned at 1°West, which provides high-powered and high-quality satellite capacity throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa utilizing a hybrid network that comprises our satellite fleet, teleports and terrestrial fiber network. Telenor Satellite delivers turnkey broadcasting solutions, end-user connectivity and application services via satellite.

Telenor Satellite is headquartered at Telenor Group offices in Fornebu, just outside Oslo. The company is 100% owned by Telenor Broadcast Holding AS, a wholly owned holding company of Telenor Group, one of the world’s major mobile operators.

UNIS

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is the world’s northernmost higher education institution, located in Longyearbyen at 78º N. UNIS offers high quality courses at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level in Arctic Biology, Arctic Geology, Arctic Geophysics and Arctic Technology. About 450 students from all over the world take one or more courses every year at UNIS. The student body consist of 50 % Norwegian and 50 % international students and English is the official language at UNIS. UNIS owns and operates the world’s northernmost aurora observatory, the Kjell Henriksen Observatory (KHO), located 15 km outside Longyearbyen.

Universitetet i Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

UiT The Arctic University of Norway, located on a small island in Northern Norway on the edge of the Arctic, is the northernmost university in the world. Established in 1968, it is one of four traditional universities in Norway and has more than 12 000 students and 2 700 staff. The academic community in Tromsø is highly international. More than 20 % of the academic staff and 10 % of the student body are from abroad.

UiT offers more than 20 English taught Master’s degree programmes within a variety of academic subjects, including a Master’s programme in Space Physics. In Tromsø, we study the physics of the upper atmosphere and its interaction with space, for example the physics of aurora and noctilucent clouds, with radar, optical, and rocket observations.

Andøya Municipality

Andøy municipality is located in Nordland, Norway and belongs to Vesterålen archipelago. Andøy's largest island is Andøya, where you can find the administrative centre Andenes. Andøy was created as a new municipality on 1 January 1964 after the merger of the old municipalities of Andenes, Bjørnskinn and Dvergberg. Today, Andenes is a thriving fishing village and enjoys a number of tourists every year. The main industries are fishing (70 fishing vessels and fish-processing plants in three separate locations), peat, tourism (such as whaling), military operations and space-related research. In addition, substantial amounts of meat, such as pork, beef and lamb, are produced in the municipality.

BECOMING A SPONSOR

European Space Camp is always looking for more sponsors to enhance the program and make the camp accessible to more participants.

There are many reasons to become a sponsor of European Space Camp. In addition to playing a vital role in encouraging more students to study and choose a career within Science, your involvement will be published across traditional and social media.

Social Media

Sponsors are featured yearly in social media posts. Additionally, the sponsors logo will be visible in pictures and videos from camp.

Promotional Material

All of our sponsors have a chance to have promotional material, like a brochure, attached to the ESC program the participants get.

Lecture

The oppertunity to present a lecturer to European Space Camp participants on behalf on their orginasation (depending on amount of funding).