Space Operations Center (Brazil)
| Space Operations Center | |
|---|---|
Centro de Operações Espaciais | |
| Brasília, DF in Brazil | |
| File:23062020 Cerimônia de Inauguração do Centro de Operações Espaciais Principal (COPE-P).jpg COPE in 2020 | |
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| Site information | |
| Type | Space control center |
| Owner | Aerospace Operations Command |
| Controlled by | File:Flag of the Brazilian Air Force Command.svg Brazilian Air Force |
| Open to the public | No |
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| Site history | |
| In use | 2020-present |
| Sources:[1] | |
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The Space Operations Center (Portuguese: Centro de Operações Espaciais - COPE) is a facility in Brasília operated by the Aerospace Operations Command to control and oversee the Brazilian satellites and other space activities. COMAE and its subordinate COPE facility is a permanent Brazilian armed forces joint command that includes both Army and Navy personnel. The center supports a geosynchronous communications satellite and two imaging satellites in low earth orbit.[2]
History and mission
[edit | edit source]The COPE was inaugurated on 23 June 2020 by President Jair Bolsonaro.[3] The main mission of the facility is the operation and control the SGDCs satellites in partnership with Telebras.[3] Other space activities will be conducted from the COPE as part of the Brazilian Space Agency operations.[4]
In 2023, Brazil space advocates began developing proposals for installation of a space collision monitoring and analysis center to support Brazil's space autonomy.[5]
In April 2024, the commanders of U.S.Space Command and the Brazil Space Operations Center signed a memorandum of agreement to assign a liaison officer to USSPACECOM to provide Brazilian armed forces expertise and further USSPACECOM-Brazil cooperation in the military space arena.[6]
References
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