Argentina plans to join Space Age

August 17, 2010 at 11:00 am | Posted in Space Law Current Events | Leave a comment

by Sara M. Langston with the blog faculty

BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 16 (UPI) — Argentina is developing satellite-launching capability with the hope of garnering some of the new business currently going to China.

Several of Argentina’s neighbors are in the process of launching satellites with Chinese help, and others are actively considering an early entry into the Space Age. Although Argentina, too, has signed up for space cooperation with China, officials said the satellite program would be launched with the nation’s own resources.

Analysts said Argentina could see satellite technology development not only as a new line of business but also as a way of bolstering defense capability amid a continuing row with Britain over a sovereignty claim on the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory…more