Esrange in Kiruna refrains from launching rockets - concerns about the security situation

The TEXUS 57 rocket campaign was planned to be launched during the period 27 February and 9 March.

But it has now been interrupted and the rocket will not be launched into space.

Worried that the security situation is deteriorating

Already earlier, Esrange has chosen to move the rocket campaign Rexus 29-30 indefinitely.

Esrange believes that a rocket launch could lead to a deteriorating security situation.

- It could be deliberately misinterpreted and used as an excuse to do something to the west, says Lennart Poromaa, head of the Esrange Space Center.

According to Lennart Poromaa, the two campaigns will be postponed and the hope is to be able to implement them in about six months.

In the clip, Lennart Poromaa talks about the consequences it could have if you continued with the campaigns.