Andøya Rocket Range (ARR) is a limited, ISO 9001:2000 certified company owned 90% by the Norwegian Department of Trade and Industry, and 10% by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace. ARR supports sounding rocket and balloon operations both from Andøya and Svalbard. The client list includes ESA, NASA, JAXA as well as hundreds of universities and research institutions worldwide.

ARR is located on the Norwegian island Andøya, 2 degrees north of the Arctic Circle. Andøya has its own airport capable of handling all sizes of aircrafts. Several daily connections to Oslo makes it convenient getting to and from the island.

"CaNoRock 1" successfully launched today. At 11:54 LT, after 5 days of physics classes, procedures, instrument making, assembly and testing the students from the universities of Oslo, Tromsø, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Calgary successfully launched the first sounding rocket within the proposed bilateral student exchange/sounding rocket program between Norway and Canada - CaNoRock. Full Story

Norwegian- Canadian rocket cooperation Andøya Rocket Range and The University of Oslo has initiated a Norwegian- Canadian rocket cooperation intended for college and university students. The cooperation will result in student exchanges between Norway and Canada and includes rocket launches from Andøya. Full Story

Talks Between Japan and Norway Andoya Rocket Range, Norwegian Space Center and Norwegian scientists visited Japan recently to talk about future research projects. Full Story

ICI-2 Launch ICI-2 climbs away from the launcher at Ny-Ålesund, Norway. Photo by: Preben Hanssen, ARR Open

The Team The ICI-2 campaign team posing for the camera up at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. After this picture was taken, the ICI-2 vehicle was covered in styrofoam to protect it from the low temperatures outside (the forecast says -19° Celcius on Saturday). Open

Explaining the ICI-2 Team member Eystein Sæther explaining the ICI-2 mission to residents of Ny-Ålesund. Photo by: Kjell Bøen, ARR Open