Brazil successfully launched its first rocket into space, 14 months after a devastating accident that killed 21 space agency employees and damaged … Rocket Launch Sites: Brazil's Atlantic Spaceports.. Credit: NASA/Courtesy of John Ives and John Raymont. Brazil's Ministry of Aeronautics has space launch and tracking facilities in northeast Brazil on the country's 4,603-mi.-long Atlantic Ocean coast near Alcantara and Natal, not far south of the equator.
The Brazilian army just bought $65 million worth of Astros mobile rocket launchers from the weapons firm Avibras.
The system was developed and manufactured by Avibras Aerospatial S.A. of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Sajil-60 is an Iraqi license-built version of the Brazilian SS-60 The ASTROS (Artillery SaTuration ROcket System) II is a modular multiple rocket launcher capable of firing three different caliber wrap-around fin rockets (for improved accuracy) using several types of warheads. The Armadillo TA-2, unveiled by Mac Jee of Brazil at LAAD last April, was proposed for the second time in Latin America at Expodefensa. Even the Brazilian Army, long content with adoption of foreign-originated military products, elected for a local solution in the Avibras ASTROS II MLRS system (ASTROS = "Artillery SaTuration ROcket System"). The ASTROS II product features a variable rocket load allowing it to be somewhat modular to suit customer requirements. The VLM (Veículo Lançador de Microssatélites) is a proposed three-stage satellite launcher being developed by the Brazilian General Command for Aerospace Technology in collaboration with Germany.
From Brazil comes an innovative rocket launching system, which can be integrated in a light 4×4 vehicle leaving it similar to all vehicles of the same type until the very last moment.