SSC Space

SSC Space is a space services company. It offers services in science and launch, ground stations, mission operations and space engineering. The website describes it as a global provider of advanced space services, with a local presence on all continents and about 800 employees.

Its science and launch services use the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna in northern Sweden. The website says the company has launched more than 600 sounding rockets since the early 1970s, and has designed and developed more than 100 scientific rocket experiments and payloads. Over the past 60 years it has launched more than 1,200 missions on suborbital rockets and stratospheric balloons.

Sounding rocket services include SubOrbital Express, a shared ride route to near space microgravity conditions for researchers and commercial companies. Other science services include stratospheric balloons, ground instruments, payload development and student programmes.

Ground station services include LEOP, Go, Plus, lunar, optical, hosting and teleport services. Spacecraft operations and engineering cover mission operations, systems engineering and software solutions, space engineering and space science operations. Satellite launch and rocket test services include satellite launches and a testbed.

The company is building orbital launch capability at Esrange and invites customers to launch satellites from there in 2028. Recent news covers a ground segment contract with ArkEdge Space, a Japan based small satellite company, a memorandum of understanding with ElevationSpace, and a second wet dress rehearsal of the European reusable prototype Themis.

The company was founded in 1972 and says it has been part of the space journey for over 50 years. Its group management system has been certified to ISO 9001 since May 2000. It has subsidiaries in Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, the UK and the US.

Services

• Sounding rockets
• Stratospheric balloons
• Payload development
• Ground station services
• LEOP
• Lunar ground services
• Mission operations
• Space engineering
• Satellite launches
• Testbed