30 points by alephnerd 3 hours ago | 10 comments
- 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.
- > 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.
- 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.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esrange
They have not launched anything into orbit yet though. Only high-altitude probes.
- Other articles write that they are (the one satellite so far) launching with Falcon9 from Vandenberg.
- What is the problem with relying on ESA when they are (a part of) ESA?
- If they use US tech they are just one orange temper tantrum away from losing access...
- Thx, that often works, but that's still inaccessible to me.