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Building on over a half century of atmospheric science and space physics engineering, OHB Sweden has developed a key competence in science-specific smallsat missions. The journey began already in the 1960s with the focus on sounding rockets and balloon payloads from northern Sweden, but evolved in to orbital satellites with the first Swedish plasma physics mission, Viking, in 1986. Since then Sweden has had a continuous role in atmospheric science and space physics in a sequence of missions leading up to the creation of the InnoSat Program. Though primarily created by the Swedish National Space Agency to address national specific academic and research needs, the program has a longer goal of serving as a science platform within newer, smaller ESA programs. This is now underway with recent missions such as the Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS) demonstration and eventual constellation, and the Space Weather Satellite (SWS) constellation.
This presentation intends to briefly show this Swedish space development history, introduce the national InnoSat program and describe what is coming in the future for AWS and SWS missions.
