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#SICT.- The Mexican Space Agency (AEM), a decentralized agency of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), informed that the Chamber of Deputies approved a constitutional reform on space matters.

The general director of the AEM, Salvador Landeros Ayala, acknowledged the will of the legislative branch to achieve this governmental innovation, for the first time in the history of our country, through amendments to articles 28 and 73 of the Magna Carta.

«The legislative scaffolding that will allow the development of spatial activities related to industry, energy, telecommunications, health, agriculture, environment, urban development, climate change, natural disasters, and more,» he said.

By virtue of the approved ruling, and in line with the current digital era in the world, activities in outer space, including on the Moon and celestial bodies, will now be considered priority areas for national development under the terms of the Constitution.

This advanced constitutional reform, achieved after four years of hard work by the LXIV and LXV Legislatures, is the result of cooperation, highlighted the deputy and president of the Science, Technology and Innovation Commission in San Lazaro, Javier Lopez Casarin.

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