Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player

https://www.intelligenceonline.com/europe-russia/2026/05/26/stockholm-poised-to-become-leading-european-geospatial-intel-player,110772386-eve

by alephnerd • 2 months ago

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IlikeMadison• 2 months 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.

tokai• 2 months ago

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

madspindel2• 2 months 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.

patall2• 2 months 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.

patall2• 2 months ago

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

nickserv• 2 months ago

If they use US tech they are just one orange temper tantrum away from losing access...

rekttrader• 2 months ago

https://archive.ph/MIRs8

protomikron• 2 months ago

Thx, that often works, but that's still inaccessible to me.

Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player

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