South Korean company wants to launch rocket from Alcantara this year
The South Korean company Innospace will be the first private aerospace company to launch a rocket from the Alcantara Launch Center (CLA), in the state of Maranhão.
The information was announced by Carlos Moura, president of the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB), on Friday (17).
The firing will take place in December. Innospace, which is still developing its rocket, will test it in an experimental launch on Brazilian soil at the end of the year.
The Brazilian government hopes to insert the country in the satellite launch market with the Alcantara base.
The site, located on Brazil's northern Atlantic coast near the Equator, is considered strategic because it reduces fuel costs, since satellites do not need to travel so far to reach Earth's orbit.
