Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

aka National Institute for Space Research, INPE

INPE is Brazil's federal research institute for space science and technology, created in 1961. Internationally recognised for Amazon deforestation monitoring (PRODES system), weather forecasting, and the long-running CBERS Earth observation programme in partnership with China. Amazonia-1 (2021) was Brazil's first entirely domestically built satellite.

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Launches

Payloads in Orbit· view →

6 debris

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Active Sats (reported)

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Funding Raised

Products & Services

CBERS (China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite)

operational

earth observation satellite

Joint Brazil-China optical EO satellite series; CBERS-4 and CBERS-4A currently active.

Since 1999

Amazonia-1

operational

earth observation satellite

Brazil's first entirely domestically built satellite for Amazon forest monitoring.

Since 2021

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