# Kiruna

*Ground station*

ESA Kiruna Station, Salmijärvi

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 67.8600° N, 20.9600° E |
| State | SE |
| What is done there | satellite ground station |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

Kiruna Station is an ESTRACK radio antenna station for communication with spacecraft operated by the Swedish Space Corporation. It is located 38 km east of Kiruna, Sweden.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=67.86,20.96
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiruna_Station
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.