Ringerike National Space Commission

The Ringerike National Space Commission which exists as a state operated and owned company, with a 55-25-20 percent ownership split between the Ministry Of Defense, Ministry Of Science and Technology and various private stakeholders. The commission handles the design and management of Space related technology, of which civil projects are then operated by the commission, and military ones are operated by the Air Force. As a product of the RNSC operating as a company, it offers launch services to international customers at a competitive rate state and private alike.

History
The Ringerike government identified a strategic need for a space capability, first in the sphere of communications, in the 1960 Defense Review, however it was also determined that achieving a domestic space launch capability would eventually become an integral part of the economy therefore the government resolved to create a jointly owned space agency, between the Ministry Of Defense (55%), the Ministry Of Science And Technology (25%) and, in a rather unconventional move for the time, 20% of the share would go to selected private companies, it was hoped that this move would assist the commission in generating supplementary funding itself.

Rocket Program
The RNSC started it's rocket development program with small scale rockets and low payload re-entry experiments, using the rocket family, which had the secondary objective of being a test of the feasibility of a domestically built family of ballistic missiles and was developed by the Air Force before the formation of the RNSC. This was immediately followed up by the first purpose built satellite launcher,, which was first launched on June 16, 1966. It's first successful payload was the satellite "Erik-1", a hybrid scientific and communications satellite. The development of the Yggdrasil program was unveiled in 1975, however it's accompanying military component was kept classified for several more years.