Argentina’s Space Industry Is Taking Off: Inside the Satellite Boom and What’s Next
Argentina’s journey into space began remarkably early. In the 1940s, visionary engineer Teófilo Tabanera formed the Sociedad Argentina Interplanetaria, making Argentina the first Latin American country with a spaceflight organization en.wikipedia.org. By 1960 – nearly a year before humans reached space – Argentina established the National Commission for Space Research with Tabanera at the helm en.wikipedia.org. Throughout the 1960s, CNIE and the Air Force’s research institute launched a series of indigenous multistage high-altitude rockets, successfully sending scientific payloads to the upper atmosphere en.wikipedia.org. In fact, Argentina became the first country in Latin America to send an object into space on a homegrown rocket, a point of immense national pride en.wikipedia.org.