BRAZILIAN SATELLITES – HISTORY & FUTURE

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SCD-1 – 1st Brazilian satellite, totally built using Brazilian technology, launched in February 9th , 1993:

SCD-2 –  2nd Brazilian satellite, totally built using Brazilian technology, launched in 1998:

SGDC-1 – !st Brazilian Geostationary Satellite, launched in 2017:

The SGDC-1 and the AMAZONAS-1:

The AMAZONAS-1  is the first remote sense imaging satellite, for Earth Obsrvation, fully developed, fully built, fully integrated and fully tested in Brazil, using only Brazilian tecnology. It  brought Brazil to the next level on 2 major aspects: Mastered of the full satellite development cicle  – only 20 countries have it, as per the AMAZONAS-1 launching date –  and the flight validation of multimission platform (PMM), a multipurpose adaptable modular configurable platform. AMAZONAS-1 has been developed by INPE (Brazilian Space Research National Institute) and AEB (Brazilian Space Agency), both tied to MCTI – Ministery of Science, Technology and Inovation.

INPE – AMAZONIA-1

Brazilian Ministry of Defense & Brazilian Air Force (FAB)

PESE – Programa Estratégico de Sistemas Espaciais

(Space Systems Strategic Program)

 

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https://www.fab.mil.br/noticias/mostra/29423/LAAD%202017%20-%20FAB%20apresenta%20Programa%20Estrat%C3%A9gico%20de%20Sistemas%20Espaciais%20na%20feira

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