Left mouse to rotate. Right mouse to pan. Middle wheel to zoom.The Viking satellite was the first Swedish satellite project, launched on February 22, 1986. Since the northernmost part of the country reaches auroral zone latitudes, there has been a long tradition of researching aurora in Sweden. In 1976, the S3-3, the third of the Small Secondary Satellites trio launched by the United States, demonstrated the immense importance for magnetospheric physics, and auroral physics. Thanks to the revelations by the S3-3 satellite, Sweden began planning for a satellite project to extend the research done by America’s probe.
