Abstract
Ecuador has made important progress in the development of its space sector in recent years, mainly since the creation of the national space agency that has made an extraordinary contribution to putting the country in the international space arena. This chapter presents a description of Ecuador’s main space activities. Section one is a general overview of the South American country; section two presents Ecuador’s space history; section three and four focus on the country’s space policies, legislation and actors; section five describes the recent space cooperation programs adopted by Ecuador and other international partners; section six concerns Ecuador’s space activities, and sections seven and eight briefly mention the country’s space technology development and its capacity building and outreach activities.
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Ecuador, EcuRed, https://www.ecured.cu/Ecuador (accessed 5 November 2019).
- 2.
Regiones naturales de Ecuador, Wikipedia, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiones_naturales_de_Ecuador (accessed 5 November 2019).
- 3.
Art. 1, Constitución de la República del Ecuador, Official Registry N° 449, 20 October 2008.
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The metropolitan autonomous districts, the Galapagos province and the indigenous and pluricultural territorial circumscriptions have special regimes, Art. 242, Ibid.
- 5.
Título IV, Participación y Organización del Poder, Ibid.
- 6.
The World Bank In Ecuador, The World Bank, 15 October 2019, https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/ecuador/overview (accessed 6 November 2019).
- 7.
Ibid.
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ECSP’s early objectives were the creation of a civil space agency, the development of a microgravity laboratory plane, the launch into outer space of five manned missions, the launch of the first Ecuadorian satellite to Earth orbit, and reach the Moon in 2020; see Nader Ronnie, El Programa Espacial Civil Ecuatoriano, Reporte al 2010, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, 2010, https://www.defensa.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/04/POWER-POINT-EL-PROGRAMA-ESPACIAL-DE-EXA.pdf (accessed 14 November 2019).
- 9.
El Objetivo, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, http://exa.ec/ (accessed 15 November 2019).
- 10.
Ibid.
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Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información (MTSI).
- 12.
¿Quiénes somos?, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, http://exa.ec/ (accessed 14 November 2019).
- 13.
Ibid.
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Política de la Defensa Nacional: Libro Blanco, Ministerio de Defensa Nacional, Quito, 2018, p. 20, available at https://www.defensa.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Pol%C3%ADtica-de-Defensa-Nacional-Libro-Blanco-2018-web.pdf.
- 15.
Ibid., p. 60.
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Other functions of the MTSI are available at https://www.telecomunicaciones.gob.ec/objetivos/.
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Other objectives included scientific space research; the coordination of space projects and programs with the National Development Goals; the development of space technology, and the promotion of the peaceful use of outer space, Ibid.
- 18.
Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ley Orgánica de Telecomunicaciones, Registro Oficial, Año II, N° 439, Quito, 18 February 2015, https://www.telecomunicaciones.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/05/Ley-Org%C3%A1nica-de-Telecomunicaciones.pdf (accessed 15 November 2019).
- 21.
Chapter IV, Ibid.
- 22.
Reglamento General a la Ley Orgánica de Telecomunicaciones, Decreto Ejecutivo 864, Registro Oficial Suplemento 676, 25 January 2016, https://www.telecomunicaciones.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Reglamento-Ley-Organica-de-Telecomunicaciones.pdf (accessed 15 November 2019).
- 23.
Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial (UTE).
- 24.
Ecuador en el Espacio, Latam Satelital, 15 July 2017, http://latamsatelital.com/ecuador-en-el-espacio/ (accessed 15 November 2019).
- 25.
La historia de Ecuador al espacio, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, http://exa.ec/index.html (accessed 15 November 2019).
- 26.
Ibid.
- 27.
Ibid.
- 28.
Román Víctor, Colombia y Ecuador firman convenio para enviar misión a la Luna, El Espectador, 6 October 2018, https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/ciencia/colombia-y-ecuador-firman-convenio-para-enviar-mision-la-luna-articulo-816510 (accessed 15 November 2019).
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RBC Signals is a global space communications provider serving satellite operators with an improved model for the delivery and processing of data spacecraft in orbit, see RBC Signals, http://rbcsignals.com/ (accessed 15 November 2019).
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RBC Signals and Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA) Announce Collaboration for Optical Communication System, RBC Signals, Seattle, Washington, 4 October 2018, http://rbcsignals.com/rbc-signals-and-ecuadorian-civilian-space-agency-exa-announce-collaboration-for-optical-communication-system/ (accessed 15 November 2019).
- 31.
Ibid.
- 32.
Satélites, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, http://exa.ec/ (accessed 6 November 2019).
- 33.
Ibid.
- 34.
Ibid.
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Ibid.
- 36.
Ecuador en el Espacio, Latam Satelital, 15 July 2017, http://latamsatelital.com/ecuador-en-el-espacio/ (accessed 15 November 2019).
- 37.
La UTE pone en órbita su segundo nanosatélite, EFE, Quito, 5 July 2019, https://www.expreso.ec/ciencia-y-tecnologia/ute-lanzamiento-orbita-nanosatelite-ciencia-KI2956158 (accessed 15 November 2019).
- 38.
Proyecto Dédalo: el primer avión latinoamericano de microgravedad, Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, Power Point Presentation, available at Proyectos, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, http://exa.ec/index.html (accessed 14 November 2019).
- 39.
This is considered the first laboratory plane for microgravity developed in Latin America. With this project, Ecuador became the third country in the world to develop a plane of this kind by its own and without foreign support. Ibid.
- 40.
Proyecto Poseidón: el ser humano más joven del mundo en experimentar microgravedad, Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, Power Point Presentation, available at Proyectos, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, http://exa.ec/index.html (accessed 14 November 2019).
- 41.
Ibid.
- 42.
El Informe Hiperión, 22 October 2008, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, Power Point Presentation, available at Proyectos, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, http://exa.ec/index.html (accessed 14 November 2019).
- 43.
Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana anuncia la creación del primer “puente” entre internet y la órbita terrestre: las Naciones Unidas invitan a EXA a entrenar científicos de todo el mundo para aprender a usarlo, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, http://exa.ec/ (accessed 15 November 2019).
- 44.
Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana anuncia el programa “Un satélite en el aula” para dar accesso en tiempo real a satélites meteorológicos para escuelas y colegios ecuatorianos, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana, http://exa.ec/ (accessed 15 November 2019).
- 45.
La agencia EXA busca sus futuros talentos en los colegios del país, El Telégrafo, 17 March 2016, https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/septimo/1/la-agencia-exa-busca-sus-futuros-talentos-en-los-colegios-del-pais (accessed 16 November 2019).
- 46.
La UTE pone en órbita su segundo nanosatélite, EFE, Quito, 5 July 2019.
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Froehlich, A., Amante Soria, D.A., De Marchi, E. (2020). Ecuador. In: Space Supporting Latin America. Studies in Space Policy, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38520-0_11
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