The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) is partnering with US and South Korean rocket providers with a focus on sustainability and national security.
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00:00For sending up satellites you need rockets and that is a technology that we are not working
00:26with so we need partners in this area.
00:29When it comes to this part of the space industry it's a global market and unfortunately what
00:34we can see is that Europe is a little bit behind and SSE as well as I would say the
00:42overall space industry are really longing also that Europe come into play in a better
00:49way and I'm so proud that we now can provide these capabilities from mainland Europe.
01:00It is pretty significant because launching South Korean rockets from Sweden's side serving
01:06global customers because all these efforts will make space exploration more accessible
01:13and more affordable for everybody.
01:15Blue Wave 1 will make its debut both in South Korea and in Sweden next year.
01:21Starting from South Korea we will conduct first launch of the Blue Wave 1 and then we
01:27will move to Estrange for another launch from there.
01:36Sweden is a new member of NATO and we will see both commercial, purely commercial use
01:43of the spaceport up in Estrange but also with the new collaboration that we probably could
01:52utilize our capabilities also for more of a military use going forward.