Mexico to put a Command and Information Management System in space

MEXICO - The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT) through the Mexican Space Agency (AEM) announced with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) about a new breakthrough of its own technology developed for satellites, which will go into space this 2025.

Through a press release, the general director of the AEM, Salvador Landeros Ayala, assured that the AEM negotiated an agreement for a new Mexican Command and Management Information System (SCMI) for Nanosatellites to be launched on the GuaraniSat-2 of the Paraguayan Space Agency (AEP), in October 2025.

He specified that this Mexican device, developed by members of the Laboratory of Electronic Instrumentation of Space Systems (LIESE) of the School of Engineering (FI-UNAM) and the AEM, was successfully tested at the University of the Republic of Uruguay, in Montevideo, in March 2024.

The system, by teacher and doctoral student Aldair Lara Tenorio (designer), Dr. Saúl de la Rosa Nieves (coordinator) and 12 students involved, is preparing to see the stars by participating in its first space mission.

Through this space trip, the researchers will be able to measure the SCMI's response capacity to radiation-induced effects and its fault-tolerant architecture, also running an algorithm to determine the satellite's orientation developed by the AEM.

The Agency said that next January, the academics will travel to the South American country to participate in integration tests with the satellite over several days. Subsequently, the system will be taken to Japan for complementary procedures.

He indicated that the focal point of this LIESE system is that it approaches the level of reliability of devices specifically designed to perform in space, but without being built with their components, since their high cost often makes them inaccessible.