Agência Espacial Brasileira
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The Agência Espacial Brasileira ( AEB for short ) has been the civil Brazilian space agency since February 10, 1994 and is the largest in Latin America with its headquarters in Brasília .
It employed about 3,400 people in 2010 and has had a policy of technical cooperation with more advanced space agencies since its inception, with an initial focus on the United States . After difficulties with this partner in the area of technology transfer, the company switched to other partner nations.
Locations
The head office is in Brasília .
Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara
The Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara ( CLA for short ) is AEB's spaceport on the Atlantic coast near Alcântara in the state of Maranhão . It is the rocket launch site closest to the equator in the world. Construction began in 1982 and cost the equivalent of $ 470 million. The facility was officially inaugurated on February 21, 1990 with the launch of a Sonda sounding rocket .
Barreira do Inferno Center
The Centro de Lançamento da Barreira do Inferno ( CLBI for short ) is another AEB missile launch site. It was built in 1965 and is located near the town of Parnamirim , near Natal . Between 1965 and 2007, 233 rocket launches were carried out there, reaching heights of up to 1,100 kilometers.
history
In an accident prior to the launch of a VLS-1 in 2003, an explosion killed 21 people (see: Brazilian rocket explosion ). The first successful rocket launch from the CLA then took place on October 23, 2004; a VSB-30 took off on a suborbital mission. Several successful suborbital launches followed in the following years.
On March 30, 2006 the AEB astronaut Marcos Pontes became the first Brazilian in space when he carried out eight AEB experiments on board the ISS . He landed in Kazakhstan on April 8th together with the crew of the ISS expedition 12 .
financing
The AEB is financed from federal funds. The budget for 2010 was 210 million US dollars , in 2011 it was US $ 275 million.
Projects
AEB operates a large number of projects. These are often carried out in cooperation with other space agencies.
The following is a general list of Brazilian space projects - including those for which the AEB's predecessor organizations and other state institutions and companies were or are responsible.
Launchers
Main cooperation partner
Brazilian satellite
| satellite | States involved | Type | business | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCD1 |
 Brazil
|
Earth observation | 1993– | active |
| SCD2 |
Brazil |
Earth observation | 1998– | |
| CBERS-1 |
Brazil China
|
Earth observation | 1999-2003 | completed |
| CBERS-2 |
Brazil China |
Earth observation | 2003– | active |
| CBERS-2B |
Brazil China |
espionage | 2007– | |
| CBERS-3 |
Brazil China |
Earth observation | (2013) | False start |
| CBERS-4 |
Brazil China |
Earth observation | 2014– | active |
| SGDC-1 |
Brazil |
Communications satellite | 2017– | |
| CBERS-4A |
Brazil China |
Earth observation | 2019– | |
| Planned: | ||||
| Amazônia-1 |
Brazil |
Earth observation | 2020– | planned |
| Flora Hiperspectral |
Brazil USA
|
Earth observation | ||
| LATTES-1 |
Brazil China USA Japan
|
Space weather mission EQUARS and X-ray telescope MIRAX |
||
| SABIA-Mar 2 |
Brazil |
Earth observation | ||
| CLE-1 |
Brazil |
LEO | ||
| Amazônia-1B |
Brazil |
Earth observation | ||
| AST-1 |
Brazil |
LEO | ||
| SGDC-2 |
Brazil |
Communications satellite | ||
| Amazônia-2 |
Brazil |
Earth observation | ||
| SAR-1 |
Brazil |
Earth observation | ||
| AST-2 |
Brazil |
LEO | ||
See also
Web links
- Official website in Portuguese
- Brazil, Argentina and the color of the ocean , blog post by Florian Freistetter
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b OECD - Brazil's space program
- ↑ Centro De Lançamento Da Barreira Do Inferno ( Memento of September 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ BBC World: Brazil Launches rocket into space BBC News .
- ↑ Space.com: Brazil completes successful rocket launch ( Memento October 27, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Space.com.
- ↑ Brazil launches rocket for gravity research , International Herald Tribune , July 19, 2007 (archived 2007).
- ↑ BBC World: First Brazilian goes into space BBC News .
- ↑ a b Satellite de Coleta de Dados - SCD GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ^ A b The Launch of CBERS-2B. ( Memento of February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) National Institute for Space Research. Web archive accessed on July 13, 2017.
- ↑ CBERS-2 in ESA's eoPortal
- ↑ Plano Director 2011-2015 . Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, July 2011.
- ↑ Amazonia-1 será lanzado en 2020 . Latam Satelital, May 11, 2018
Coordinates: 15 ° 48 ′ 57.2 ″ S , 47 ° 56 ′ 36.3 ″ W.