STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden launched its first military communications satellite in August last year, the government said on Friday, the first of more planned military surveillance satellites.

HELSINKI, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Sweden has launched its first military communications satellite, the country's Ministry of Defense announced on Friday. As Sweden's first military satellite in space ...

Gen. Jonas Wikman (left). Credit: Defense Minister Pal Jonson/X Sweden has quietly obtained an indigenous military satellite communications capability as it also disclosed launch plans for more ...

Bouncing back from under the weight of Ice Age glaciers which have long since vanished, the Nordic region land mass is slowly ...