A study undertaken by business development agency LTU Business on behalf of the northern Swedish regional space development programme RIT2021 has forecast that the space research, development, industrial and launch cluster in and around the town of Kiruna could double in size over the next ten to 15 years. This would increase the number of institutions, agencies and enterprises active in the cluster to between 50 and 70 in number, and result in a directly-employed workforce of 1 000. Kiruna is the most northerly town in Sweden. It is the site for the Esrange Space Centre, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, and the Department of Space Science of the Luleå University of Technology, as well as various space sector enterprises, most notably the State-owned Swedish Space Corporation (SSC).
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