– Canada’s ticket to the Space Shuttle and ISS
Hinode – one satellite, three new windows to the Sun
With Hinode in orbit the Solar Research community has got a new way of studying the processes on the Sun. The processes affect and interect with the surroundings of Earth, and it is important to obtain new knowledge.
Ten years of SOHO
SOHO is one of the most successful space missions in history and has provided scientists and the public with a wealth of spectacular images and scientific data. It has revolutionized our understanding of the Sun, solar eruptions and of space weather effects.
Building a satellite
The scientists and users set the wishes and demands for a satellite like Metop, but it is only the industrial community that can concretise these wishes into an operational satellite. No company alone has the knowledge required, and to gather all information into one piece is an enormous puzzle for the organisations.
Cospas Sarsat – for the rescue service a quarter of a century
A quickly responding rescue service is always important, but especially important for the northern areas, where extreme weather and temperatures mean limited time for the rescue service.
Tor-Henning Iversen, Department of Biology, University of Trondheim
“The building of the International Space Station (ISS) has also been a major step in offering biologists new opportunities for space research.”
Atmosphere Climate Experiment Plus – ACE+
ACE+ is the response to ESA´s 2nd Call for Earth Explorer Opportunity Missions in 2001. ACE+ will considerably advance our knowledge about atmosphere physics and climate change processes. The mission will demonstrate a highly innovative approach using radio occultations for globally measuring profiles of humidity and temperature throughout the atmosphere and stratosphere.
A space research facility on ISS is controlled from Trondheim
In the presence of the Minister of Commerce, Odd Eriksen, the Norwegian User Support and Operations Centre (N-USOC) at Plantebiosenteret (located at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway) was opened on March 31, 2006.
Is it possible to grow plants on ISS from seeds to seeds?
A plant experiment proposed by a scientific group at the Department of Physics and one at the Department of Biology (Plantebiosenteret) using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana has been selected as the first Norwegian biological experiment on the ISS.
Equipment from Damec
Keeping the astronauts in good physical shape.