http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/04/10/scotland-vs-sweden/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/04/10/scotland-vs-sweden/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Wed, 10 May 2006 11:18:07 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/04/10/scotland-vs-sweden/#comment-350 […] Proposals for a European spaceport for Virgin Galactic in northern Sweden have been featured by the Invest in Sweden Agency (ISA), a government agency that works to attract foreign investment in the country. The short article notes that Virgin Galactic in particular is interested in establishing a spaceport at Kiruna, which already hosts sounding rocket launches. However, despite the official imprimatur, the ISA article doesn’t indicate any kind of government approval or endorsement of the project: the article appears to be cribbed from (and cites) an article in a British newspaper previously discussed here. […]

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