US Signs Deal With Norway to Launch Satellites From the Arctic
A communications satellite launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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The US and Norway signed a deal allowing the launch of American satellites from the Nordic country’s Andoya Spaceport in the Arctic.
Under the so-called Technology Safeguards Agreement inked on Thursday, Norway joins nations including Australia and the UK that have concluded such deals to authorize the transfer of US equipment to launch facilities in the country, according to a website statement from the government in Oslo.