A few days ago, a delicate incident occurred with a Swedish test missile. It went off course and eventually crashed in Norway. The anger is great there, because the government in Oslo was not aware of the flight in advance.
The research rocket was launched on Monday from the Esrange launch site in northern Sweden. According to a broadcast from the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), their goal was weightlessness tests with the payload at an altitude of 250 kilometers. A safe landing should then have taken place on Swedish territory. But unfortunately there was a deviation from the calculated trajectory and the rocket landed 15 kilometers from the Swedish border on Norwegian territory, the research center said.
Crash in uninhabited area
No one was harmed by this “landing”. The crash site in Troms og Finnmark county is uninhabited. The Swedish and Norwegian authorities were also immediately “informed”, the SSC emphasizes. Still, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was angry about the incident. Because you were not informed in time.
The TEXUS-58 rocket is part of a research program of the European Space Agency ESA. The cargo has since been recovered. Experts are now investigating how the missile crashed 40 kilometers from its planned target.
Source: Krone
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