Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player
25 points by alephnerd 3 hours ago | 10 comments

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.
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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.

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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.
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Findecanor 60 minutes ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esrange

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

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patall 2 hours ago
Other articles write that they are (the one satellite so far) launching with Falcon9 from Vandenberg.
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tokai 2 hours ago
What is the problem with relying on ESA when they are (a part of) ESA?
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rekttrader 32 minutes ago
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protomikron 18 minutes ago
Thx, that often works, but that's still inaccessible to me.
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nickserv 42 minutes ago
If they use US tech they are just one orange temper tantrum away from losing access...
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