Sweden’s Arctic spaceport is gearing up to launch the first satellites from mainland Europe

The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) is partnering with US and South Korean rocket providers with a focus on sustainability and national security.

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00:00For sending up satellites you need rockets and that is a technology that we are not working

00:26with so we need partners in this area.

00:29When it comes to this part of the space industry it's a global market and unfortunately what

00:34we can see is that Europe is a little bit behind and SSE as well as I would say the

00:42overall space industry are really longing also that Europe come into play in a better

00:49way and I'm so proud that we now can provide these capabilities from mainland Europe.

01:00It is pretty significant because launching South Korean rockets from Sweden's side serving

01:06global customers because all these efforts will make space exploration more accessible

01:13and more affordable for everybody.

01:15Blue Wave 1 will make its debut both in South Korea and in Sweden next year.

01:21Starting from South Korea we will conduct first launch of the Blue Wave 1 and then we

01:27will move to Estrange for another launch from there.

01:36Sweden is a new member of NATO and we will see both commercial, purely commercial use

01:43of the spaceport up in Estrange but also with the new collaboration that we probably could

01:52utilize our capabilities also for more of a military use going forward.