Senior officials from the Brazilian Space Agency, the Brazilian Ministry for Science, Technology, and Innovation, and a professor from Brazil’s Technological Institute of Aeronautics pose for a photograph with NASA team members at the Huntsville Operations Support Center during their visit to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, from Aug.
15-16.
Brazil was the first Latin American country to sign the Artemis Accords, joining the United States and a growing number of nations committed to safe, responsible, and transparent behavior in space, and a common interest in preserving and protecting the outer space environment to ensure a safe and sustainable future in space for all.
The Brazilian Space Agency is collaborating with Marshall on an upcoming CubeSat mission called the Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task, or SPORT, that will study effects of space weather on Earth’s upper atmosphere.
The visit included discussions with Marshall leaders about the space agencies’ successful partnership for SPORT and potential future collaborations in support of the