The Swiss Space Office (SSO) is the federal government's competence centre for national and international space matters. In its role it cooperates closely with other federal offices and is responsible for the preparation and implementation of the policy and strategic orientations of the space domain in Switzerland.[1] The SSO is part of the State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation. The Head of the SSO is Dr. Renato Krpoun.[2]
The SSO ensures international cooperation in the space sector and promotes contacts with foreign partners. It represents Swiss interests in international organisations and international cooperation programmes. The most important instrument for implementing Swiss space policy is the participation of Switzerland in European Space Agency (ESA) programmes and activities. State Secretary Prof. Dr. Martina Hirayama and Dr. Renato Krpoun lead the delegation to ESA at ministerial,[3] respectively delegate level.[4]
Switzerland is a founding member of the European Space Agency, and has actively participated in European space development since 1960. The Swiss Space Office opened in 1998. The role of the SSO expanded to cover all aspects of space policy in 2000, when the new national constitution came into force.[5]
According to Jane's, the SSO is "the administrative unit charged with planning and implementing Swiss space policy", which was defined by the Swiss Federal Council.[6] The SSO office in Bern includes the Federal Commission for Space Affairs (CFAS), and the Interdepartmental Coordination Committee for Space Affairs (IKAR).[1]
Claude Nicollier is a Swiss Astronaut and has been on several missions with the United States space program in the 1990s and is also a member of the European Astronaut Corps. By 2007 he had retired from Swiss space missions to become a professor at EPFL.[7] Switzerland's Marc Bertschi became the head of the ESA launcher program in 2007.[8]
Claude Nicollier performs maintenance on STS-46 in 1992
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^"Decisions from the 290th ESA Council meeting". European Space Agency.
^Creola, Peter. "Switzerland in Space – a brief history" (PDF). European Space Agency.
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^"Claude Nicollier nommé professeur ordinaire de technologies spatiales". EPFL. March 28, 2007. Archived from the original on August 4, 2007. Retrieved March 19, 2009.
^Capper, Scott (February 11, 2007). "Swiss takes over as space agency's rocket man". SWI swissinfo.ch. Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.
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