Andøya Space’s current facility is located outside Andenes and is an ideal launch site for rockets carrying satellites. Norway has been launching research and carrier rockets into the sky here since 1962. The new station is being built just under 35 kilometres...
Spectacular images show the launches of rockets. (Photo: SSC / Lennart Poromaa) Esrange, the space centre in northern Sweden, is best known for launching high-altitude rockets and research balloons. Now the Swedish Space Corporation wants to be the first location...