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.

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madspindel 2 hours 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.

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patall an hour 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 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esrange They have not launched anything into orbit yet though. Only high-altitude probes.
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		Here: https://sscspace.com/news/agreement-with-fmv-on-satellite-la...

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patall an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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tokai 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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