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Agencia Bolivariana para Actividades Espaciales

ABAE is Venezuela's national space agency, a decentralized aerospace entity under the Ministry of Science with headquarters in Caracas.^[1]^[2] It was created as the Venezuelan Space Center on 28 November 2005 and renamed Agencia Bolivariana para Actividades Espaciales on 25 October 2007.^[1] Its Earth-observation record centers on the VRSS programme: VRSS-1 Miranda operated from 2012 to 2022, and VRSS-2 Sucre has a recorded 2017 to 2023 window with panchromatic, multispectral, shortwave-infrared, and longwave-infrared imaging roles.^[3]^[4]^[5] VRSS-2 status is carried in two forms, inactive after 2023 and a five-year active design life from its 2017 launch.^[5]^[4] ABAE also maintains ground-station infrastructure at Baemari and Luepa for mission support.^[5]

Operates

VRSS-1 (Miranda)Ended
Launched 2012-09-29 / Sun-synchronous orbit, 645 km, 10:30 descending ECT
VRSS-2 (Sucre)Operational
Launched 2017-10-09 / Sun-synchronous LEO; CelesTrak 612 x 639 km, 97.65 deg as of 2026-06-21 / 101 day revisit / 30 km swath

Sources

[1]Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20
[2]ABAE Official Websiteoperator marketing2026-06-20
[3]VRSS-1 - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20
[4]VRSS-2 - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20
[5]WMO OSCAR - ABAE Space Agencyagency doc2026-06-20

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@misc{eoatlas:companies:abae,
  title = {Agencia Bolivariana para Actividades Espaciales},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/companies/abae}
}