New Brazilian Space Projects with Public Private Partnership
- Paper number
IAC-06-B5.1.06
- Author
Dr. Otavio S.C. Durao, The Brazilian Institute for Space Research, Brazil
- Coauthor
Dr. Alexander Sukhanov, Space Research Institute (IKI), RAS, Russia
- Year
2006
- Abstract
Brazil has had very strong difficulties with its space budget. This is according with the difficulties found all over the world with other space programs under peaciful times and short public budgets. Projects may now not only issue technological and scientific returns as secondary goals, but also clearly define return for investment, even those with science as the main purpose. This paper describes two new projects being proposed in Brazil with the aim to a joint private public partnership, through a private company. This scenario is held under the new Technological Inovation Law, that allows public facilities, laboratories and even personnel to be hired by a private company through agreements or contracts. The paper describes the approach to possible future customers in the public and private sectors, that may be interested in sharing the costs for the projects. Besides the private customers and investors, the public partners would drawn their budgets from their specific areas, helping to ease the burden over the government national space budget. Up to now, the costs for space projects is totally drawned from the government space budget (except for communication satellites). The paper also covers the approach to private investors that may be interested in participate in the project as well, and not necessarily as customers of the payload data. The paper describes the two projects that are a scientific orbiter to the moon and a SAR remote sensing mission. The orbiter will have at least one main payload and will also carry six CubeSats, to be launched when the mother ship is in lunar orbit; each one of these CubeSats will have a different payload and may operate in conjunction with the main satellite. The SAR mission is mainly to ocean (ship detection, oil spill etc) and geological (land) applications. Main possible customers are the Navy (ship detection), the Brazilian Petroleum Company - PETROBRAS (environment) and private large mining companies. The lunar orbit allows for different marketing strategies offered to different business investors.
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