Norrland
Norrbotten County
Kiruna Municipality

Esrange Space Center

Esrange Space Center or Esrange is space and research center located about 40 kilometers east of the town of in northern , owned and operated by the Swedish Space Corporation.
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  • Type: Spaceport
  • Description: spaceport
  • Also known as: “Esrange”, “ESRANGE”, “European Space and Sounding Rocket Range”, and “Rymdforskningscentrum”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Skylark launch tower.

Industrial building
A Skylark tower was a tower used for the launch of earlier versions of Skylark rockets. As Skylark rockets had no guidance system and accelerated slowly, they required a safe launch tower with a height of at least 24 metres, with its own guidance system. is situated 180 metres southeast of Esrange Space Center.

Esrange Space Center

Latitude
67.89478° or 67° 53′ 41″ north
Longitude
21.10507° or 21° 6′ 18″ east
Elevation
334 metres (1,096 feet)
Open location code
9GV3V4V4+W2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 219685342
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­spaceport
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­rocket_range
Geo­Names ID
606239
Wiki­data ID
Q1368518
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Satellite Map

Discover Esrange Space Center from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Esrange Space Center” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إسرانج”
  • Arabic: “اسرانج”
  • Bulgarian: “Есрейндж”
  • Catalan: “Esrange”
  • Danish: “Esrange”
  • Dutch: “Esrange Space Center”
  • Dutch: “Esrange”
  • Finnish: “Esrange”
  • French: “Esrange”
  • Galician: “Esrange”
  • German: “Esrange”
  • German: “European Space and Sounding Rocket Range”
  • Indonesian: “Esrange”
  • Italian: “Esrange”
  • Japanese: “エスレンジ”
  • Japanese: “エスレンジ射場”
  • Japanese: “エスレンジ発射場”
  • Luxembourgish: “Esrange”
  • Northern Sami: “Esrange”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Esrange”
  • Norwegian: “Esrange”
  • Polish: “Esrange”
  • Portuguese: “Esrange”
  • Romanian: “Esrange Space Center”
  • Russian: “Эсрейндж”
  • Slovenian: “Esrange”
  • Spanish: “Esrange”
  • Swedish: “Esrange”
  • Turkish: “Esrange”
  • Ukrainian: “Есрейндж”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Esrange Space Center”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0 de.