How Space Exploration Shapes Our World

Mexico's National University is launching its own space program with an eye on practical applications. Their CubeSat project aims to use satellites for fire prevention and urban planning.

How Space Exploration Shapes Our World
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Due to the importance of space flights, the National University is increasingly involved in these topics. In addition to the creation, a few years ago, of the aerospace engineering degree, and the UNAM University Space Program (PEU), there are specific proposals for of the country, for example the Ixaya Mission, a satellite project for the prevention and fire management in our territory.

The above, according to the member of the PEU, Francisco Moisés García Hernández, who assures that in particular the Program (whose mission is to coordinate efforts and promote collaboration between university experts who work in different academic entities) has a catalog of projects that have to do with the development of space science and technology, “with the purpose of giving them visibility and promoting links.”