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>600 rockets have been launched from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden since 1966. https://sscspace.com/esrange/ https://sscspace.com/esrange/
by ilove_banh_mi 2y ago
>600 rockets have been launched from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden since 1966.
https://sscspace.com/esrange/ https://sscspace.com/esrange/
- noselasd 2y agoIsn't that owned by the Swedish government ?
- ilove_banh_mi 2y agothe space center no, and in general not the rockets
- oskarkk 2y agohttps://sscspace.com/esrange/ https://sscspace.com/esrange/ > Esrange, owned and operated by Swedish Space Corporation (...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Space_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Space_Corporation > Company type: Government-owned So, Esrange is government-owned, but the company that makes the rocket is private.
- solarexplorer 2y agoThere is also the first object in space. But this was arguably no commercial launch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_18014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_18014
- oskarkk 2y agoThe article talks about the first orbital rocket to be launched from Europe. The title is not very precise, but orbital rockets are the only ones that matter anyway.
- qw 2y agoThe same location (Andøya, Norway) has also launched over 1,200 sounding and sub-orbital rockets of various configurations since 1962. As others have explained, the news here is a rocket reaching orbit