Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player

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.

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.

Here: https://sscspace.com/news/agreement-with-fmv-on-satellite-la...

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

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