Space
Nicaragua
Space agency/agencies
National Secretariat for Extraterrestrial Space Affairs, The Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (Secretaría Nacional para Asuntos del Espacio Ultraterrestre, la Luna y otros Cuerpos Celestes, founded in 2021; functions under military oversight) (2025)
Space program overview
its declared mission is to foster the advancement of space initiatives to enhance the nation's capabilities in education, industry, science, and technology; has engaged in collaboration with China and Russia; is a signatory to the convention that established the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (2025)
Key space-program milestones
1994 - became a member of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
2017 - Russia inaugurated a satellite navigation system monitoring facility in Nicaragua
2021 - ratified the convention establishing the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency
2024 - became part of the China-led International Lunar Research Station initiative, which seeks to create a permanent lunar base by the 2030s