Dutch-Norwegian collaboration on nanosatellites

Sandhi Yudha

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In 2015, Norway and the Netherlands signed a cooperation agreement on strategic military research collaboration called SMART, “Strategic Mutual Assistance in Research and Technology”.
The purpose of the collaboration is to obtain broad knowledge about current and future space-related techniques, technology and concepts.

A result of this collaboration is the two nanosatellites currently being developed. The term “nano” simply refers to the fact that they weigh less than 10 kilos.

Noorwegen and the Netherlands are doing this to ensure strategic autonomy by developing and owning its own constellation of satellites, while also reducing its dependency on communication, navigation, observation, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities supplied by its strategic and commercial partners.



In the Defensie Ruimte Agenda you can find more information about the Netherlands defence developments in space.
 
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