Korea’s Hanbit-TLV will be the first private company satellite launcher to be sent into space. The launch will take place from the Alcántara Center, in Maranhao.
The satellite launcher rocket that South Korean society innospace plans to send into space this month, from a space base in the Amazonis already in Brazil.
It is Korean Hanbit-TLVa rocket hybrid engines 16.3 meters high, weighing 9.2 tons and one meter in diameter.
It will be the first satellite launcher from a private company to be sent to the space from the Alcántara Launch Center (CLA), the Brazilian space base in the state of Maranhao.
Their launch “It assumes a unprecedented moment in the history of Brazilian space program“, said the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaroin their social networks.
Innospace is a South Korean startup that produces small satellite-launching rockets like the Hanbit, and intends to use the Brazilian base as a platform, to send satellites by command From different countries.
The launch will be a suborbital test flight to validate the Hanbit’s engine, which has the capability to carry a Payload from up to 50 kilograms.
During its test flight, the rocket will climb to a height of 100 kilometers and fall into the open sea in the Atlantic Ocean, without entering orbit.
In addition to Innospace, another company that plans to take advantage of the Brazilian base to launch satellites is the Canadian C6 launch systems. Its first flight is scheduled for next year.
The pristine orbitfrom millionaire richard bransonalso received approval from the Brazilian government to use the 2.6-kilometer Alcántara runway to launch his aircraft.
Visiting Brazil in May 2022, the American tycoon Elon Musk He also expressed interest in using the Brazilian base to launch his company’s rockets. SpaceX.
The Alcántara launch center is located close to the Atlantic Ocean and in a sparsely populated region of the Amazon, a few kilometers from the equator line.
Its conditions allow it to offer great advantages to anyone wishing to place satellites in space.
For the moment, Brazil does not plan to resume its project to develop a national rocket that it can offer commercially as a satellite launcher.
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