Kongsberg Spacetec
The company was created by employees of Tromsø Satellite Station, which had been operating since 1967. They created Drive Electronics in 1982, but it was bankrupt two years later. The company was recreated as Spacetec, which was registered on 11 December 1984. The company was created with a stock of NOK 5 million or NOK 1,000 per share. Spacetec created a joint company called Norspace. The companies that it was created from are Norsk Data, Computas, Informasjonskontroll and Noratom. Its job was to act as a supplier for the European Space Agency. By 1986, the company had eighteen employees. It received a state subsidy of NOK 6.25 million to help pay for its expansion.