Sedunnic Space Agency (Pacifica)
Sedunnō Veser Onne'is | |
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| Abbreviation | SVO |
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| Motto | Masann ("Farther") |
| Formation | 1960 |
| Headquarters | Goends, Sedunn |
Official language | Sedunnic |
Administrator | Aku Mattsallu |
| Stavaed Rocket Range | |
Parent organisation | Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation (Government of Sedunn) |
Budget | $1.34 billion (FY2022) |
Staff | 2,926 |
The Sedunnic Space Agency (Sedunnic: Sedunnō Veser Onne'is, SVO) is the national aerospace and space agency in Sedunn operating under the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation. SVO is responsible for research and technology development related to aerospace and space and to launch satellites into orbit. It is involved in many, more advanced missions in with the CPSC. Its motto is "Farther".
It was founded in 1960, three years after the CPSC, in order to have an exclusively Sedunnic space program to coordinate domestic civilian aerospace and space industries and research, originally militarily oriented. It collaborates extensively with the Teleresources branch of the Sedunnic Armed Forces and the Sedunnic Weather and Climate Institute, as well as the civilian aerospace industry.
Sedunn has facilities in Stavaed for launching satellites into orbit, but due to its location far from the equator, domestic rocket launches are rare and are nowadays mostly limited to purely military missions. The SVO is responsible for the training of Sedunnic astronauts.
FY 2022 the SVO had a budget of $1.98 billion representing roughly a third of the national budget allocated to space research and exploration. Two thirds go to the CPSC.