Airvantis, COBRUF and Garatéa partner to send cubesats into space
NewSpace industry specialists will evaluate COBRUF Aerospace Competitions teams. Possible future opportunities to send technology to International Space Station are being considered.
Airvantis and Garatéa are the newest institutional partners of COBRUF Association in the promotion of COBRUF Aerospace Competitions. An executive from Airvants startup will evaluate the team’s business skills and their projects potential to NewSpace. Preliminary analysis for a joint COBRUF Aerospace Competition to select an university cubesat to be sent to the International Space Station through Garatea in the near future are under way. The alliance is an important joint step in democratizing student access to the new commercial space race and real space missions.
“I trully believe in the potential of COBRUF to seed the space culture within Brazilian students. I’ve been supporting COBRUF activities for years and now I’m honored to develop an official partnership with my endeavors.” — highlights Lucas Fonseca, CEO of Airvantis and Mission Director of Garatéa
The COBRUF Aerospace Competitions (CACs) are the world’s most advanced and ambitious ecosystem of space exploration educational competitions and aim to democratize the access of students from Brazil and the world to peaceful space exploration and the Right to Fly Higher. The competition ecosystem receives teams in the areas of experimental sounding rockets, planetary space suits, deep space cubesats, rovers and drones for Mars exploration and AUVs for Ocean Worlds exploration.
In addition to the educational nature, COBRUF competitions also encourage the development of dual technologies and innovative solutions to the main challenges of the international space industry. CACs were specifically designed to generate highly qualified human resources for the Brazilian and international technology industry, new business solutions and future NewSpace startups.
“Airvantis and Garatéa are extremely competent initiatives that share COBRUF’s goal and determination to democratize access to peaceful space exploration. This partnership will join our unique expertises and enable a great step in creating new extraordinary opportunities to advance STEAM education and NewSpace industry." — emphasizes Emersson Nascimento, CEO of COBRUF Association.
About
Airvantis
Airvantis represents NASA/JAXA Kibo Module at the International Space Station in Latin America, is one of the leading Brazilian companies in NewSpace, ranked as one of the Top 5 Big Data companies in Brazil and participates at the New York Alliance acceleration program. Airvantis mission is to to provide low-cost access to space data. Using standardized platforms, the company will bring accessible technologies to introduce the benefits from space activities to down-to-Earth people.
More at: https://www.airvantis.com/
Garatéa
Garatéa is a Brazilian consortium of institutes, universities and companies. Since 2013, Garatea has launched several experiments to stratosphere through balloons and to the International Space Station through SpaceX rockets. Garatea main goal is to send a cubesat to Moon’s orbit in order to perform astrobiology and planetary science experiments.
More at: https://www.garatea.space/
COBRUF Association
COBRUF Association is one of the most influential private NewSpace initiatives in Brazilian aerospace education, has international experience and industry recognition. Since 2015, COBRUF coordinated several rocket launch operations at Brazil’s most experienced federal space launch center, promoted several educational aerospace competitions and cooperations, driven the technical expertise of students at the highest international levels and brought together innovative technological concepts to contribute to peaceful space exploration.
More at: https://blog.cobruf.com.br
