EXA Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency

Guayaquil, Ecuador

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The Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA) (Spanish: Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana) is the organization in charge of administering and executing the <a title="Ecuador" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador">Ecuadorian</a> civilian space program and conducting scientific research on space and planetary sciences. It is a non-profit NGO with 100% civilian operation capital through private funding an self sustained. It was established on November 1, 2007 and includes the first Ecuadorian trained astronaut, Ronnie Nader, among its staff members. <h2>History</h2> EXA was established on November 1, 2007 as an independent civilian organization in charge of administering and executing the Ecuadorian civilian space program and to conduct scientific research on space and planetary sciences and encourage the development of sciences in the Ecuadorian education system. EXA had its first achievement with <a class="external text" href="http://www.exa.ec/bp16/index-es.html" rel="nofollow">Project DAEDALUS</a>, on May 6, 2008, during the EXA/FAE-02 mission when they successfully tested a modified <a class="mw-redirect" title="Sabreliner T-39" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabreliner_T-39">Sabreliner T-39</a> of the <a title="Ecuadorian Air Force" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_Air_Force">Ecuadorian Air Force</a> flown by FAE pilots and adapted with a device created by EXA to generate <a class="mw-redirect" title="Microgravity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgravity">microgravity</a> by sustaining cybernetically assisted <a title="Weightlessness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weightlessness#Reduced_weight_in_aircraft">parabolic flight</a>, becoming the first country in Latin America in developing this kind of technology by their own means.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_Civilian_Space_Agency#cite_note-1">[2]</a> On June 19, 2008, EXA flew in microgravity the youngest human being in history, <a class="external text" href="http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_Youngest-person-to-experience-microgravity/blog/493415/7691.html" rel="nofollow">Jules Nader</a>, seven years old, establishing the Guinness world record for this newly created scientific category.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_Civilian_Space_Agency#cite_note-2">[3]</a> EXA jointly operates with the <a title="Ecuadorian Air Force" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_Air_Force">Ecuadorian Air Force</a> the Ecuadorian Micro Gravity Flight Program. <a title="Space Adventures" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Adventures">Space Adventures</a> is a provider for EXA, providing services to retrofit another micro gravity plane, a FAE <a title="Boeing 727" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_727">Boeing 727</a>-100. As of September 29, 2008,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_Civilian_Space_Agency#cite_note-3">[4]</a> EXA is a member of the <a title="International Astronautical Federation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Astronautical_Federation">International Astronautical Federation</a>. EXA built and operates the <a class="external text" href="http://uv.exa.ec/" rel="nofollow">National UV Radiation Monitor</a> that protects more than four million people by providing them real-time information about UV levels reaching Ecuadorian territory. On September 8, 2009, EXA announced that had built and successfully tested the first Internet-to-Orbit voice/data gateway, the <a class="external text" href="http://exa.ec/bp25" rel="nofollow">HERMES-A/MINOTAUR</a> system, which was demonstrated at the <a class="mw-redirect" title="UNOOSA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNOOSA">UNOOSA</a> Symposium on <a class="external text" href="http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/sap/2009/graz/Programme_3September.pdf" rel="nofollow">Small Satellites for Sustainable Development</a> held in the Austrian Academy of Sciences in city of <a title="Graz" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graz">Graz</a>, <a title="Austria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria">Austria</a>, were participants from 31 different countries were able to operate satellites remotely from this location using the system, which is located in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The HERMES-A/MINOTAUR system is under the responsibility of the Space Operations Division of EXA. On April 4, 2011, unveiled the first Ecuadorian satellite, the <a title="NEE-01 Pegasus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEE-01_Pegasus">NEE-01 Pegasus</a>, designed and built completely in the country by an EXA engineering team led by Cmdr. Ronnie Nader, Ecuador’s first cosmonaut, and engineers Sidney Drouet, Manuel Uriguen, Héctor Carrión, Gonzalo Naranjo and Ricardo Allú, the project took almost 2 years since its conception in April 2009. On May 17, 2011, the National Assembly awarded the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency – EXA with the VICENTE ROCAFUERTE National Medal to Scientific Merit for its outstanding and longstanding labor in designing and developing the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Program.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_Civilian_Space_Agency#cite_note-4">[5]</a> On July 2011, the EXA exported 8 titanium parts for the <a class="new" title="UKube-1 (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UKube-1&action=edit&redlink=1">UKube-1</a> British satellite, becoming the first latinamerican entity in export space technology to other countries. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_Civilian_Space_Agency#cite_note-5">[6]</a>. On December 13, EXA signed the launch contract for the <a title="NEE-01 Pegasus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEE-01_Pegasus">NEE-01 Pegasus</a> satellite with ISIS Launch Services, scheduled to take place on September 2012 on board a Dnepr rocket from the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Dombarovskiy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dombarovskiy">Dombarovskiy</a> base in Russia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_Civilian_Space_Agency#cite_note-6">[7]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_Civilian_Space_Agency#cite_note-7">[8]</a>.

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