Arctic Sweden in race for Europe's satellite launches

ESRANGE SPACE CENTRE (SWEDEN) - As the mercury drops to minus 20 Celsius, a research rocket lifts off from one of the world's northernmost space centres, its burner aglow in the twilight of Sweden's snowy Arctic forests.

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