Space. Bet a half a billion at Esrange. The money enables new opportunities and markets open up for the state ssc outside Kiruna, believe the government’s investigators. Esrange can then become a place for the launching of smaller satellites.
– We believe it would be wise of the government to take the next step, ” said Jan Nygren, who investigated the issue for the government.
Also today pushed the smaller satellites from the Esrange, but then along with larger, not separate. But the interest to shoot up the smaller units in orbit around the earth, both for research and commercial interests, is increasing. Esrange would be good to, and get ahead of existing and future competitors by building out, according to Jan Nygren. An investment of 550 million over three years would give the Esrange the required capacity.
Important
– To be one of the ten, twelve countries in the world that have the capacity can probably mean a part not only of Norrbotten, but also for the nation and the EU, said Jan Nygren.
He says that Google pushes its own satellites. Second, both firms and government bodies, makes it to monitor the climate, agriculture, environment, and economic movements, among others.
– Space has developed into a quite normal infrastructure to take care of business on earth, ” said Jan Nygren.
Vengeance 2017
Science Helene Hellmark Knutsson (S), says that the Nygrens investigation now to be reviewed in the government offices.
– We hope that we will be able to come with a vengeance next year on how we go forward with this, ” she says, and adds that Sweden has good prospects.
She points out that the Esrange operations are already quite extensive.
– But it is limited because it does not have the capacity for this, ” says Helene Hellmark Knutsson and aimed at the launch of smaller satellites.
the FACTS
Sweden
1966 shot the first rocket from rymdbasen Esrange, 45 km east of Kiruna.
It is cheaper to shoot rockets over the water. But for those who want back the content is in Sweden the only available place in Europe.
1972 took the state Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) over the operation of Esrange.
1978 launched satellitverksamheten at Esrange. Today, it has 140 contacts with satellites, every day, on behalf of the customers in all over the world.
2016 work 160 persons at Esrange. Within the fenced area, there is a 30 satellite dishes, among them a Galileoantenn for Europe’s counterpart to the american GPS system. A governmental investigation has looked at the possibilities in the future to send up small satellites from Esrange and make the business commercially sustainable.
Source: Esrange/SSC
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