Spaceport Sweden

Spaceport Sweden

Spaceport Sweden is a company that plans to make Kiruna the primary European Spaceport for personal suborbital spaceflight and space tourism. It's a co-operation between the Swedish Space Corporation, the Jukkasjärvi Icehotel, LFV Group and Kiruna’s business-development company Progressum.Fact|date=July 2008

The official inauguration of the company was made on 26 January 2007, and the company started off by signing an agreement with Virgin Galactic. The agreement stated that the two would be working together towards an operational agreement whereby Spaceport Sweden would be the first spaceport outside the United States which Virgin Galactic can use for flight campaigns. On 3 April 2008, a press conference was held in Kiruna, and a number of astronauts in training were presented to the press, but details of an agreement, if any, were not released. [cite press release
title = 03.04.2008 / Spaceport Sweden and Virgin Galactic
publisher = virgingalactic.com
date = 2008-04-03
url = url=http://www.virgingalactic.com/htmlsite/news.php
accessdate = 2008-06-26]

See also

*List of Spaceports
**Spaceport America
**Mojave Spaceport
*Virgin Galactic
*Space tourism
*Suborbital spaceflight

Notes

External links

* [http://www.spaceportsweden.com Official website]
* [http://www.ssc.se/ Swedish Space Corporation]
* SPACE.com: [http://space.com/news/070128_sweden_virgin.html Virgin Galactic Strikes Deal with Swedish Government] Peter B. de Selding 28 January 2007 08:49 am ET


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