Comments on: Some official attention for a Swedish spaceport http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/05/10/some-official-attention-for-a-swedish-spaceport/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Personal Spaceflight » European space tourism and spaceports http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/05/10/some-official-attention-for-a-swedish-spaceport/comment-page-1/#comment-4109 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:56:24 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/05/10/some-official-attention-for-a-swedish-spaceport/#comment-4109 […] British media, such as The Scotsman newspaper, reported that Scotland is being considered for a Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceport, in particular an existing air base, RAF Lossiemouth. Other than specifically identifying a proposed site, though, there’s not much new here, since Virgin Galactic officials have previously indicated they are considering Scotland for a European location, but are also considering Kiruna in Sweden. […]

]]> By: Dag http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/05/10/some-official-attention-for-a-swedish-spaceport/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Thu, 11 May 2006 08:12:12 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/05/10/some-official-attention-for-a-swedish-spaceport/#comment-379 The Swedish Civil Aviation Authority, Esrange and tourist goal “Icehotel” management are together forming a consortium to make this happen.

Official governmental support is as of yet not expressed. Swedish media and society in general are not aware of the unique swedish space infrastructure in Europe, and not ready for offensive ventures. My hope is this will change in a few years. The consortium hopes to be able to establish Esrange as a spaceport 2010-2011.

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