Andoy Space Center, Andenes, Nordland, Norway
Andøya Space Center (ASC) was established in 1962 and is a solution provider for sounding rocket-, balloon- and remotely piloted aircraft operations from Norway. ASC is also involved with remote sensing and owns and operates the Alomar lidar observatory.
The ASC headquarters is located on the island of Andøya, two degrees north of the Arctic Circle, in the midst of Northern Norway. ASC also operates a sounding rocket launch site at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard.
As a limited company, ASC is owned 90% by the Ministry of Trade and Industry and Fisheries and 10% by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace.
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