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Från föhn till feu! : Esrange och den norrländska rymdverksamhetens tillkomsthistoria från sekelskiftet 1900 till 1966
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2010.
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Abstract
- This essay is about the origin, planning and establishment of the European Space Research Organisation's (ESRO) sounding rocket base Esrange outside Kiruna in Northern Sweden. Three main questions are examined. First I show there were not just scientific and technical but also political, economical as well as military reasons to build a European rocket base. Second, I scrutinize the reasons to choose Northern Sweden as the location for the rocket base. As it turns out, the main reasons were the favourable location of Northern Sweden within the aurora oval zone, the proximity of the Kiruna Geophysical Observatory, and the possibility to use a large, although not quite uninhabited, area where the launched rockets could crash. Finally, I examine the difficulty of talking about boundaries of various kinds, such as temporal, spatial and functional. The essay also provides a discussion on possible ways to continue research on this topic.
- Subjects :
- raket
Abisko
norrsken
engineering
ESRO
rymdfysik
rocket base
forskningsstation
Idé- o lärdomshistoria
Other earth sciences
STS
ESA
Space physics
samer
Vetenskapshistoria
Technology and culture
Esrange
polar
polarforskning
teknologi
Teknik- och industrihistoria
History of technology and industry
Rymdteknik
research station
Geofysik
geophysics
Teknik och kultur
Vassijaure
space
Space engineering
aurora
History of science and ideas
observatorium
vetenskapsstudier
observatory
History of technology
Kiruna
history of science
Övrig geovetenskap
technology
norrskensforskning
Norrland
rocket
rymdverksamhet
northern lights
aurora borealis
Teknikhistoria
raketbas
physics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Swedish
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.od.......264..429fc6e4613d87bd3690ea559f094785