In order to promote the knowledge and application of space technology for the benefit of national development, the Forum “Space Activities in Mexico, opportunities for National Development” was held.
The spatial issue is at the fore in the agenda of the Pro Tempore Presidency of Mexico, in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), in order to expand the frontier of knowledge, create new jobs, and imagine an innovative future.
With the purpose of promoting the knowledge and application of space technology for the benefit of national development and within the framework of the 130th anniversary of the Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT), the Mexican Space Agency (AEM), co-organized, together with the Chamber of Deputies and the Technical Council of Knowledge and Innovation (COTECI), the Forum “Space Activities in Mexico, opportunities for National Development”.
With the representation of the head of the SCT, Jorge Arganis Díaz-Leal, the general director of the AEM, Salvador Landeros Ayala, acknowledged the support for the space issue, and thanked the Chamber of Deputies for the interest of the AEM, through the Commission of Science, Technology and Innovation, headed by Deputy Marivel Solís Barrera.
For her part, Deputy Solís Barrera recalled that, since October 2020, she has been promoting an avant-garde initiative, so that space activities become the engine of national development, in order to place these new technologies at the service of the nation, through a Constitutional reform according to this new digital era.
In turn, the Honorary President of COTECI, Javier López Casarín, recalled that the space issue is a protagonist on the agenda of the Pro Tempore Presidency of Mexico, in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), in order to expand the border of knowledge, create new jobs, and imagine an innovative future that takes advantage of the seedbed of young talent in the country.
The meeting underlined the importance and relevance of space resources in priority areas related to industry, energy, telecommunications, agriculture, health care, protection of the environment and climate change, urban and rural development, as well as the protection of the population in the face of disasters due to natural phenomena, among other social benefits.
In that sense, the Program Executive of NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Division and mentor leader of the Mexican AztechSat-1 Nanosat-1, Andrés Martínez, also recognized the visionary leaders co-organizers of this forum, for their effort to build these new opportunities. cutting edge technology for the benefit of our new generations.
After a broad exchange of ideas between legislators, public servants and specialists, the relevance and viability of the respective constitutional reform was established, which will allow to lay the legislative bases so that our country and its young people do not lag behind, and place themselves in space activities as priority areas for national development.
The forum counted with the virtual assistance of distinguished national and international personalities, such as the Hon. Balázs Vass, Economic Counselor of the Embassy of Hungary in Mexico; Benjamín Najar, president of the Space Commission, of the Mexican Federation of the Aerospace Industry; and Francisco Valdez Galicia, head of the Space Program of the National Autonomous University of Mexico; among others.