Published by Phys.org, 2 November 2023 Norway on Thursday joined the race to launch satellites from the European continent by inaugurating a new spaceport on the island of Andoya, north of the Arctic Circle.Isar Aerospace said the "Andoya Spaceport" was to "become the first operational orbital spaceport in continental Europe
By Ewan Wright and Andrew FallePublished by The Conversation, 7 November 2023 In September 2021, Rwanda announced that it was planning to launch over 300,000 satellites. Three months later, a Canadian company, having previously launched two dozen CubeSats, said it would launch an additional 100,000. Then, a French company did likewise. And SpaceX, which
By Daniel Boffey, Published by The Guardian, 21 September 2023 Sweden is leading in a battle to be the first European space base outside Russia to launch a satellite into orbit First place is “nice but it’s not necessary”, says Stefan Gustafsson, a senior official at the Sweden Space Corporation
By Kathryn Armstrong, Published by the BBC, 26 April 2023 Sweden has got into hot water with Norway after one of its research rockets malfunctioned and landed in its neighbour's territory. The rocket was launched at 07:20 local time (05:20 GMT) on Monday from the Esrange Space Center, before plunging
The unknown history of the CIA and NSA in Norway The author of this book is Bård Wormdal, an award winning author, filmmaker and journalist from Norway who specialises in intelligence and warfare. He has worked for NRK, Norway's largest mediahouse, for more than 30 years. Bård also published "The
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 1 September 2022 Satellite terminals in Alaska will be the main connection to the new EPS-R payloads that will launch in 2023 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has started building a gateway site at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska, where it will operate
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 9 June 2022 The payloads are scheduled to lift off in 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force announced June 8 it delivered the first of two military communications payloads that will launch
