AEM to develop new generation «AztechSat» satellites with NASA

#SecretaríaDeComunicacionesYTransportes.- The Mexican Space Agency (AEM), a decentralized agency of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), signed a new agreement with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), to develop new generation satellites called «AztechSat».

«Through this new agreement with NASA, we continue to redouble our efforts to strengthen Mexico’s international cooperation and to promote the training of our youth in advanced space technologies for social tasks,» said AEM’s Director General, Salvador Landeros Ayala.

He explained that, through this agreement, both space agencies will collaborate in developing satellite technology useful for lunar exploration, which at the same time will be applied to the priority task here on Earth of caring for marine fauna and the environment.

This, after the successful result of the technological demonstration mission «AztechSat-1», the first Mexican Nanosatellite on the International Space Station, when it was able to intercommunicate with the Globalstar satellite constellation, some one thousand kilometers above its orbit.

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