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Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player(intelligenceonline.com)
17 points by alephnerd an hour ago | 7 comments
IlikeMadison 37 minutes ago | parent [-]

Sweden relies on foreign technology for this (US), compared to France and Germany. They also depend on the ESA/France to put these satellites into orbit. That's not what I would call a leader player.

madspindel 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> They also depend on the ESA

Sweden is part of ESA, what a strange thing to say. Also, I believe some of the satellites will be sent from Kiruna, Sweden.

patall 16 minutes ago | parent [-]

Do you have info on that? All the internet tells me that there is a tracking station there, no spaceport. And if one wanted to use a local spaceport, I suppose the Norwegian one would be close enough.

Findecanor 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esrange

They have not launched anything into orbit yet though. Only high-altitude probes.

madspindel 11 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Here: https://sscspace.com/news/agreement-with-fmv-on-satellite-la...

patall 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Other articles write that they are (the one satellite so far) launching with Falcon9 from Vandenberg.

tokai 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

What is the problem with relying on ESA when they are (a part of) ESA?