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PLANS TO create a Latin American and Caribbean space agency have edged closer to fruition after a number of countries met online today to discuss a founding constitution.
A number of countries signed a declaration on October 9, during World Space Week, and Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard stressed its importance today when he gave an update to his counterparts in Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina, with observers from Paraguay, Colombia and Peru also present.
“The Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency [ALCE] is advancing,” Mr Ebrard said.
“Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Paraguay have joined. Colombia and Peru also participated as observers. We are already, with Argentina and Mexico, eight nations building ALCE by 2021. We grew four times in one month.”
Mr Ebrard added that the failure of Latin American and Caribbean countries to enter the space race would leave the region facing major disadvantages in science and technology.
Working together would make it possible “to jointly build small, medium and large satellites, share space infrastructure and develop earth stations and terminal equipment with significant economies of scale,” he said.
