Danish Space Research Institute (DSRI) (

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: ''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

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, later the

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.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

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

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coming from

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. DRI have had X-ray equipment on board the Russian Satellite

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and the European EURECA satellite. The now concluded

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, 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

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part of Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen merged to form the Danish National Space Center. The DRI prepared instruments/components for: *

, 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'', which landed on Mars in 1976. Each spacecraft was composed of two main parts: an orbiter designed to photograph the surface of Mars f ...

, Mars lander/Orbiter *

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, 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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