Brazil is preparing for a milestone that has eluded it for decades: an orbital satellite launch from its own soil. Sometime within the next few weeks, at the Alcântara Launch Center in the northeastern state of Maranhão, South Korea’s Innospace plans to send its two-stage HANBIT-Nano rocket into orbit carrying a small satellite, in partnership with the Brazilian Air Force.
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