Freja (satellite)
Swedish artificial satellite
FREJA was a Swedish satellite developed by the Swedish Space Corporation on behalf of the Swedish National Space Board . It was piggyback launched on a Long March 2C launch vehicle from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China on October 6, 1992. The satellite's total cost was 19 million U.S. dollars , excluding the costs of experiments.
It was funded with Swedish tax money through the Swedish National Space Board , donations from the Wallenberg Foundation and approximately 25% from the German Ministry for Science and Technology .
(F1) Electric Fields, Royal Institute of Technology , Sweden
(F2) Magnetic Fields, Applied Physics Laboratory /Johns Hopkins University , United States
(F3C) Cold Plasma, National Research Council of Canada , Canada
(F3H) Particles; Hot Plasma, Swedish Institute of Space Physics , Kiruna , Sweden
(F4) Waves, Swedish Institute of Space Physics , Uppsala , Sweden
(F5) Auroral Imager, University of Calgary , Canada
(F6) Electron Beam, Max-Planck Institute , Germany
(F7) Particle Correlator, Max-Planck Institute , Germany
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