Brazil imports the biggest amount of the needed parts and pieces from other countries, being very dependent on the supply from countries like the United States, China and European nations. Other important regions are the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Minas Gerais. This has garnered a response in both the Brazilian congress as well as the American Congress, with Democrat House Representatives introducing a resolution calling on the Bolsonaro government to respect the rights of the Quilombolas. Within Brazil's MECB, civilians have been primarily responsible for satellite production, and the armed forces have been in charge of developing launch pads and rockets. Military officers occupied most of the high-ranking positions in the MECB. The aerospace industry covers the production and sales of airplanes, rockets, satellites, helicopters, and the components of these machines. However, this agreement does not come without its critics. In addition to its indigenous research and development, Brazil now cooperates in its space program with Canada, the European Space Agency (ESA), Russia, France, and especially China. The CBERS-1 was scheduled to be launched in May 1997. Brazil wants to be a part of the new Space Age, where private companies, especially from the United States, are going to be the protagonists, alongside with the traditional national space agencies of the global powers. While Brazil’s experience with satellites and space applications was developed just recently, the presence of Brazilians in outer space is practically non-existent. The town has 22,000 inhabitants and access to the sea. It was based at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT). Copyright © 2008 - 2019, The Brazil Business - All rights reserved, Latecoere do Brasil, controlled by Groupe Latecoere. The SCD-1, sometimes referred to as the "green" satellite, is used by Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) agencies. Companies often complain about the lack of qualified work labour. It is led by a civilian, who is under the direct control of the president. Until 1994 the military directed most of the space program through the Ministry of Aeronautics, which is in charge of the CTA. In Brazil, this industry essentially makes light and medium-sized airplanes, even though there are initiatives in the other areas. For example, because it is so close to the equator it provides a 25 percent fuel savings compared with Kennedy Space Center. The CLA, officially dedicated on February 21, 1990, cost more than US$470 million to develop. The deindustrialization of the Brazilian economy is very particular and happened very early, as it is normal for the industry to lose space when the per capita income of families starts to grow, since they consume more services and less goods, however, in Brazil, they do not a high per capita income was reached and the country did not get rich enough for the productive structure to migrate so quickly. Created in 1950, the CTA is involved in research and development for the aerospace programs of the FAB (Brazilian Air Force). The INPE develops satellites and conducts space and meteorological research. The AEB was created in part to deflect criticism from the United States government, which viewed with alarm the involvement of Brazil's military in the MECB. In the 1960s, the Brazilian government constructed their first launch site, Barreira do Inferno, close to the city of Natal. In 1981 it unveiled the MECB, an ambitious US$1 billion program with the aim of attaining self-sufficiency in space technology. Unfortunately, the institution suffered a bad repute when operations were briefly halted due to a failed launch in 2003, resulting in the deaths of 21 technicians and the destruction of some of the installations. In the 1960s, the Brazilian government constructed their first launch site, Barreira do Inferno, close to the city of Natal. Arianespace, a French space and defense partner of France's Aérospatiale group, launched the first two Brasilsat satellites in February 1985 and March 1986. The Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) has been underfunded for many years, and could do with the supposedly 3.5 billion USD that will come with American use of the Alcântara Launch Site. Both the SCD-1 The SCD-2, which was launched October 22, 1998, by a Pegasus rocket (a U.S. rocket), to collect environmental data. Since 1964, in an attempt to build a satellite launch vehicle (Veículo Lançador de Satélite--VLS), Brazil has developed a series of sounding (research) rockets, named Sonda I, II, III, and IV.

Subsequent launches were made from the Alcântara Launch Center (Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara--CLA), in Maranhão, President José Sarney's home state.

There are around 50 companies affiliated to the main representative institution of this industry in Brazil, named AIAB or Associação das Indústrias Aeroespaciais do Brasil. The Bolsonaro administration has accepted the Technological Safeguards Agreement with the USA, an agreement that has evaded Washington before the Workers Party arrived to power. In 1994, the space program was transferred to civilian control under the Brazilian Space Agency.