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Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player

30 points by alephnerd ago | 10 comments

IlikeMadison |next [-]

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 |root |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 |root |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 |root |parent |next [-]

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

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

patall |root |parent |next |previous [-]

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

tokai |root |parent |previous [-]

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

nickserv |next |previous [-]

If they use US tech they are just one orange temper tantrum away from losing access...

rekttrader |previous [-]

https://archive.ph/MIRs8

protomikron |root |parent [-]

Thx, that often works, but that's still inaccessible to me.