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Ambitious Project: FAB Plans State-Owned Company for Launches in Alcântara with Possibility of Partnership with SpaceX!
On the night of Wednesday, 27, the Chamber of Deputies authorized the Lula government to create another state-owned company. This is Alada, an aerospace state-owned subsidiary of NAV Brasil, another state-owned air navigation company created by former president Jair Bolsonaro.
The government had no difficulties in approving the project. The bill was approved with 364 favorable votes and 47 against. Now, the project will go to the Senate, where there is optimism for approval without many difficulties.
Objective of the Project
When sending the project to Congress, the government highlighted that Alada will allow for the economic exploitation of aerospace infrastructure and navigation, as well as activities related to the development of projects and equipment in the sector.
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In a report presented on Wednesday, Deputy Augusto Coutinho (Republicans-PE) stated that the creation of Alada will not lead to an increase in public spending. According to him, the subsidiary will be the responsibility of NAV Brasil, a state-owned company that operates independently of the National Treasury.
A study by the Institutional Security Office (GSI) pointed to aerospace companies as potential interested parties in the Alcântara Base in Maranhão. Among them are Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin. The Brazilian Air Force intends to use Alada to intensify rocket launches in the region.
Since the Dilma Rousseff (PT) government, the Armed Forces have advocated for the creation of a state-owned company to concentrate aerospace activities. The proposal anticipated that the new state-owned company would function as a lessor of land and equipment for space launches. However, it faced resistance due to the possibility of the removal of quilombola communities for the expansion of the base.
In September, Lula (PT) signed an agreement with the quilombola communities of Alcântara, ending 44 years of litigation with the Brazilian Space Program. In 1980, approximately 500 families were expropriated by the Air Force for the establishment of the aerospace base.
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