Space
Paraguay
Space agency/agencies
Paraguay's Space Agency (Agencia Especial del Paraguay, AEP; founded in 2014) (2025)
Space program overview
maintains a nascent space program that aims to acquire satellites, satellite data, and the necessary technologies and capacities for satellite manufacturing, while also fostering local expertise and industry; a key objective is to obtain remote sensing capabilities to aid socio-economic development, which includes resource mapping, weather prediction, and agricultural monitoring; has successfully constructed a cube satellite with international collaboration; operates satellites; collaborates with foreign space agencies and industries, including those from India, Japan, Taiwan, the United States, and member nations of the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (2025)
Key space-program milestones
2017 - hosted the nation’s inaugural international conference on space-related topics
2021 - collaborated with Japan to produce the first research/technology-demonstrator cube satellite (Guaranisat-1), which was launched by the United States and deployed from the International Space Station; formalized agreements for the creation of the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency
2025 - in the process of developing Guarani-Sat-2, which will be Paraguay's second satellite and the first to be designed and constructed within the country