Esrange
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Esrange Space Center or Esrange is Sweden's space and research center located about 40 kilometers east of the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden, owned and operated by SSC Space. The base itself covers
Esrange Skylark launch
Sounding rockets that land in a vast, uninhabited area north of the range. Throughout this area are small shelters that one can use when a rocket campaign is planned.
BLAST (the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-millimetre Telescope) on the 'flightline' at Esrange.
Interior of a shelter at Vassejávri
Themis programme
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The Themis programme is an ongoing European Space Agency programme carried by prime contractor ArianeGroup, aiming to develop a prototype reusable rocket first stage and plans to conduct demonstration
Esrange
…Esrange to conduct in 2026 a series of VTVL, (Vertical takeoff, vertical landing) for the first time in European history. The first-stage rocket is the Themis T1H demonstrator assembled and constructed by ArianeGroup. The name of the facility was originally ESRANGE, which was an abbreviation for ESRO Sounding…
Themis on stand, 2025