Danish Space Research Institute (DSRI) ( Danish: ''Dansk Rumforskningsinstitut'', short ''DRI'' or ''DRKI'') was the space agency of

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from 1966 to 2005. It was a Danish sector research institute formed in 1966 under the Danish Ministry for Education and Research, later the Danish Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation.Brian Harvey - ''Europe's space programme: to Ariane and beyond (2003) - Page 149
(Google Books Link 2010) Denmark was a founding member of the

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(ESA) in 1975 and launched the satellite ''Oersted'' in 1999. ''Europe's space programme: to Ariane and beyond'', notes the DRI had budget in excess of 2.6 million Euros supporting a staff of 40 people, with an additional 25 million Euros going to the ESA in 2001. Its primary areas of research was

astrophysics Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of the founders of the discipline, James Keeler, said, astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the ...

and solar system physics. A great deal of the research was concentrated on

X-ray An X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays. Roughly, X-rays have a wavelength ran ...

coming from

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. DRI have had X-ray equipment on board the Russian Satellite Granat and the European EURECA satellite. The now concluded Danish Small Satellite Program, which resulted in the aforementioned Oersted (''Ørsted'') satellite, was headed by DRI. The DRI space missions were supervised by the Danish Space Board. On 1 January 2005 the DRI and the

geodesy Geodesy or geodetics is the science of measuring and representing the Figure of the Earth, geometry, Gravity of Earth, gravity, and Earth's rotation, spatial orientation of the Earth in Relative change, temporally varying Three-dimensional spac ...

part of Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen merged to form the

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. The DRI prepared instruments/components for: * Granat, X-Ray/Gamma-Ray space observatory *

Viking program The ''Viking'' program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, ''Viking 1'' and ''Viking 2'' both launched in 1975, and landed on Mars in 1976. The mission effort began in 1968 and was managed by the NASA Langley Research Cent ...

, Mars lander/Orbiter *

Cluster mission Cluster II was a space mission of the European Space Agency, with NASA participation, to study the Earth's magnetosphere over the course of nearly two solar cycles. The mission was composed of four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral fo ...

, Earth observation satellites *

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* Ørsted satellite, Earth magnetic field observations * Plank missionDanish Space Research Institute to build the mirrors of ESA's Planck telescope - Jun 2000
/ref> As of 2010, the Ørsted is still in orbit and returning data.

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Research institutes in Denmark Space technology research institutes

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