AEM (Mexican Space Agency)

More space organisations in Mexico

• Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) – Space Programme · Academic Institution · Puebla

  Mexican university in Puebla — develops national CubeSats, including AztechSat-1 (with NASA) and the volcano-monitoring GXIBA-1 deployed from the ISS via KiboCUBE.

• Centro de Desarrollo Aeroespacial del IPN (CDA) · Academic Institution · Mexico City

  Aerospace development centre of Mexico's Instituto Politécnico Nacional — runs space engineering projects, stratospheric missions and training.

• Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) · Research Institution · San Andrés Cholula

  Mexican public research centre in astrophysics, optics and electronics — offers space science and technology graduate programmes and develops small satellites.

• Laboratorio de Instrumentación Espacial (LINX), ICN-UNAM · Research Institution · Mexico City

  UNAM space instrumentation lab — led the COLMENA lunar micro-robot mission and contributes to Mini-EUSO and nanosatellites such as NanoConnect-2.

• Laboratorio Nacional de Ingeniería Espacial y Automotriz (LN-INGEA) · Testing Facility · Querétaro

  UNAM national laboratory in Querétaro — provides thermal-vacuum, vibration and EMC testing, satellite integration and a satellite control station.

• Laboratorio Nacional de Observación de la Tierra (LANOT) · Research Institution · Mexico City

  Mexican national Earth observation laboratory at UNAM — receives and processes GOES and polar-orbit satellite data for agencies such as CONAFOR and CFE.

• Programa Espacial Universitario UNAM (PEU) · Academic Institution · Mexico City

  UNAM programme coordinating space research across Mexico's National University — runs nanosatellite projects, CanSat contests and space scholarships.

• ThumbSat · Startup · Tijuana

  Tijuana-based femtosatellite startup — builds sub-100 g satellites and the ThumbNet ground-station network; flew ThumbSat-1 and -2 in 2025.