BRASILIA: The United States and Brazil have negotiated an accord to safeguard US space technology the South American nation hopes will be used in ...
BRASILIA: The United States and Brazil have negotiated an accord to safeguard US space technology the South American nation hopes will be used in commercial rockets lifting off from its launch site near the equator, the Brazilian government said on Monday .
Brazil hopes to get a piece of the US$300 billion-a-year space launch business by drawing US companies interested in launching small satellites at a lower cost from the Alcantara base run by the Brazilian Air Force on the South American country's north coast. Space cooperation between the United States and Brazil took a big step forward when they signed a Space Situational Awareness agreement last year during a visit to Brasilia by former US Defence Secretary James Mattis.The accord on sharing real-time tracking data on objects and debris in space is needed to develop a satellite launching business without the risk of collision.
But without the technology safeguard agreement that protects sensitive American space launch and satellite technology, no U.S. rocket could blast off from Brazil.
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