ATDT presents Mexican Space Program at the Mexico 2025 Aerospace Exhibition

During the panel “From Mexico to space, voices that transform”, which took place at the Mexico Aerospace Fair (FAMEX) 2025, the Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications (ATDT) presented the Mexican Space Program, which contemplates putting a new satellite into orbit to meet the needs of the population.

ATDT's Satellite General Director, Brenda Escobar Méndez, explained that satellite capacities will be increased 20 times to provide connectivity to the most remote and difficult to access areas of the country, through public infrastructure.

“The intention is that with this new telecommunications satellite we will be able to connect at least three thousand localities that currently do not have public infrastructure or lack these services,” she said.

She added that voice and data services required by the Mexican Government for strategic areas, such as the Mayan Train and the Welfare Bank branches, will also be provided.

Accompanied by Altagracia Gómez Sierra, coordinator of the Economic, Regional and Relocation Development Advisory Council, and astronaut Katya Echazarreta González, Escobar Méndez said that the experience and infrastructure already in place will be used to create an image processing laboratory to use the telemetry services consumed by the Government.

“This is not just about having a satellite up there or the images, but what I do with them and how I give them an application and a useful output", Escobar Méndez added.

She added that she is already in talks with space agencies of other nations and international organizations to strengthen collaboration in this area.

For her part, Katya Echazarreta agreed on the importance of building these space and satellite capabilities in our country, in order to develop our own technology.

“If there is no specialized talent in Mexico, companies will look for it in another country, they will bring that talent from somewhere else, and those jobs will no longer be for Mexicans,” she said.