Sweden Proposes Arctic Circle Launch Site For Smallsats

Tony Osborne November 02, 2020

Swedish Space Corp.'s Esrange Space Center — Esrange’s facilities have been used extensively for sounding rockets and suborbital flights since the 1960s. Satellite launch should soon follow.
Credit: European Space Agency

Sweden has joined Europe’s small-satellite launch race in a bid to secure a share of the burgeoning multibillion-dollar market. Over the next three years, the Swedish government will invest 90 million Krona ($10 million) in the Esrange Space Center north of the Arctic Circle, near Kiruna, that could...

Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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