Esrange

Esrange (Acronyme of European Spaceresearch ARRANGES) , Launching base of balloons and sounding rocket installed by ESRO and brought into service in 1966 at 40 km of Kiruna, in Sweden of North, with 200 Kilomètre S in the north of the Arctic Circle.

Its geographical coordinates are.

Property of ESRO until July 1972, it is exploited since by the Swedish Space Corporation (SC), which projected with beginning of the year 1990 to build an infrastructure for launching there small satellite in polar Orbite.

It has four not of shooting.

External bonds

Official site of the SC on Esrange
Page on the basis of Kiruna on Astronautix

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