The Norwegian Sounding Rocket and Baloon Program.

The status and resent developments of the Norwegian Sounding Rocket and Balloon and Program are presented with focus on national activities and resent achievements. The main part of the Norwegian program is sounding rocket launches conducted by Andoya Rocket Range from the launch facilities on Andoya and at Svalbard. For the majority of the programs, the scientific goal is investigation of processes in the middle and upper atmosphere. The in situ measurements are supplemented by a large number of ground-based support instruments located at the ALOMAR Observatory. The ongoing and planned projects are described and the highlights of the latest completed projects are given. The scientific program for the period 2001-2003 will be reviewed. Several new programs have been started to improve the services available to the international science community. The Hotel Payload project and MiniDusty are important examples that will be introduced in the paper. Available space related infrastructure is summarized.