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Sven Grahn, born (1946) and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. At the age of 16 he worked at the temporary base for launching sounding rockets at Kronogård in Sweden's far North – a forerunner to Esrange. His parents, Evert Grahn (1910-2004) and Maria née Björkman (1913-2004) were born in Gävle on the coast of the Baltic and in 1936 they moved to Stockholm where Sven's brother Lars was born in 1941. Sven Grahn graduated from the Norra Latin high school in Stockholm in 1964. He finished his M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1969 and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. from this learned institution in 2004. In 1975 he started working for the Swedish Space Corporation (the company is nowadays called SSC) in Solna (suburb of Stockholm) and held engineering and management positions in all the major early Swedish space projects, e.g. system engineering manager for Viking, Sweden's first satellite, technical lead for the space segment of the TV-satellite Tele-X, project manager for Freja, the first satellite entirely designed and built in Sweden. He then was the general manager for SSC's Space Systems Division during the years 1993-2001 when the division developed the Odin orbital observatory and the SMART-1 Moon probe .

For his space technology work Sven Grahn has been awarded the silver and gold medal in memory of Swedish aviation pioneer Enoch Thulin (silver 1993, gold 2008), the gold medal of the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (2001), the Silver medal of the French Academy of aeronautics and astronautics (2005) och His Majesty the King's Medal, size 12 (2007).




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Sven Grahn, born (1946) and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. At the age of 16 he worked at the temporary base for launching sounding rockets at Kronogård in Sweden's far North – a forerunner to Esrange. His parents, Evert Grahn (1910-2004) and Maria née Björkman (1913-2004) were born in Gävle on the coast of the Baltic and in 1936 they moved to Stockholm where Sven's brother Lars was born in 1941. Sven Grahn graduated from the Norra Latin high school in Stockholm in 1964. He finished his M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1969 and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. from this learned institution in 2004. In 1975 he started working for the Swedish Space Corporation (the company is nowadays called SSC) in Solna (suburb of Stockholm) and held engineering and management positions in all the major early Swedish space projects, e.g. system engineering manager for Viking, Sweden's first satellite, technical lead for the space segment of the TV-satellite Tele-X, project manager for Freja, the first satellite entirely designed and built in Sweden. He then was the general manager for SSC's Space Systems Division during the years 1993-2001 when the division developed the Odin orbital observatory and the SMART-1 Moon probe . For his space technology work Sven Grahn has been awarded the silver and gold medal in memory of Swedish aviation pioneer Enoch Thulin (silver 1993, gold 2008), the gold medal of the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (2001), the Silver medal of the French Academy of aeronautics and astronautics (2005) och His Majesty the King's Medal, size 12 (2007).