The State Administration Database

Section for Space Activities

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.2019* Regular founding

Name: * Infrastructure section
Short name: INF
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Located: 301 Oslo

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2025* Change of name

Name: Section for Space Activities
Short name: ROM

Tasks:
Section for Space Activities
The section is responsible for coordinating the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries’ responsibility for space activities. This responsibility includes coordinating work on civil space security and the governance of the Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA). Furthermore, the section is responsible for managing the state's ownership in Andøya Space AS. The section is also responsible for international space cooperation through the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU and the UN, as well as the upcoming Norwegian Space Law and space security.
Sourve: regjeringen.no january 2025

01.01.2025* Maintenance by reorganization

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.