Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (IAE)

More space organisations in Brazil

• Centro de Operações Espaciais (COPE) · Government Agency · Brasília

  Brazilian Air Force space operations centre — controls the SGDC defence and communications satellite and oversees national space assets.

• Centro Gestor e Operacional do Sistema de Proteção da Amazônia (Censipam) · Government Agency · Brasília

  Brazilian Defence Ministry body — monitors the Amazon via satellite remote sensing and provides satellite communications to public agencies.

• Edge of Space · Private Company · Jacareí

  Brazilian engineering company — provides precision machining, brazing, CFD software and liquid-propulsion development for the space sector.

• Telecomunicações Brasileiras S.A. (Telebras) · Government Agency · Brasília

  Brazilian state-owned telecom company — operates the SGDC-1 geostationary defence and communications satellite and provides satellite broadband to public programmes.

• Akaer · Private Company · São José dos Campos

  Brazilian aerospace engineering group — designs aircraft structures and, via its subsidiaries, satellite cameras and space payloads; acquired by UAE's EDGE in 2026.

• BIZU Space · Private Company · São José dos Campos

  Brazilian launch-technology developer — builds liquid rocket engines and CubeSat deployers and is developing the MLBR Brazilian microlauncher.

• Centro de Lançamento da Barreira do Inferno (CLBI) · Spaceport/Launch Site · Parnamirim

  Brazilian Air Force rocket launch centre near Natal — launches sounding rockets and provides tracking support for Alcântara and foreign launches.

• Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara (CLA) · Spaceport/Launch Site · Alcântara

  Brazilian Air Force spaceport near the equator in Maranhão — hosts sounding rocket campaigns and commercial launches such as Innospace's HANBIT-Nano.