Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player (intelligenceonline.com)
30 points by alephnerd 3 hours ago
IlikeMadison 2 hours ago
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 2 hours ago
> 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 2 hours ago
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 2 hours ago
madspindel 2 hours ago
patall 2 hours ago
Other articles write that they are (the one satellite so far) launching with Falcon9 from Vandenberg.
tokai 2 hours ago
What is the problem with relying on ESA when they are (a part of) ESA?
nickserv 2 hours ago
If they use US tech they are just one orange temper tantrum away from losing access...
rekttrader an hour ago
protomikron an hour ago
Thx, that often works, but that's still inaccessible to me.