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President Sebastián Piñera presented the new national satellite system, whose program includes the start-up of three satellites to replace the current one Fasat-Charlie, that has already reached its useful life.
In addition, the initiative will have three ground stations for receiving information.
In the midst of an activity at the National Aeronautical and Space Museum, President Sebastián Piñera launched the new National Satellite System that aims to materialize a Space Program to advance the country’s satellite capacity.
As the president explained, this initiative will coordinate and integrate the efforts of the Ministry of Defense, the Chilean Air Force, and the Ministry of Science for defense and security purposes.
This was indicated, along with adding that this implies a benefit to the way in which the country faces natural catastrophes, search and rescue operations and the protection of natural resources, climate monitoring, among others.
Likewise, the president affirmed that this program will make it possible to have three satellites that will replace the Chilean Fasat-Charlie satellite, which has already completed its useful life.
The purpose is that a national constellation is formed for the observation of the Earth.
To this new national satellite system will be added the authorization of three orbital control ground stations, which will be located in Santiago, Punta Arenas and Antofagasta.
The latter will be mobile and can move wherever it is required. They will be interconnected and will allow decentralized access to satellite images and will increase the possibilities for international cooperation in space matters.
On the other hand, the project will have a special emphasis on the distribution and expeditious access to geospatial information. To do this, a Web geoportal pIt will allow the development of applications for mobile devices that give access and expeditious distribution to these data to users of the Defense and the civil world, according to a statement.
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