# Agencia Espacial Brasileira
*agency . companies*

## Specifications
- **operator domains**: ["aeb.gov.br"]
- **country**: Brazil
- **website**: https://www.gov.br/aeb
- **entity type**: company
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-20
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **attributes**: {"kind":"agency","operator_domains":"[\"aeb.gov.br\"]","country":"Brazil","website":"https://www.gov.br/aeb"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
Agencia Espacial Brasileira is Brazil's civilian federal space agency, created on 10 February 1994 and headquartered in Brasilia.[^wiki-aeb][^aeb-gov-br] It formulates, coordinates, and executes national space policy, working with Brazilian research, aerospace, and defence institutions across the National Space Activities Programme.[^wiki-aeb][^iaf-aeb] For Earth-observation buyers, AEB is primarily a programme authority and funder rather than a day-to-day satellite operator. Its programme portfolio includes CBERS, Amazonia, SCD, VLS, and PNAE, with SCD environmental data-collection missions and Amazonia-class Earth-observation activity handled through Brazil's implementing institutions.[^wiki-amazonia1][^eoportal-scd]

## Sources
- [wiki-aeb] | Brazilian Space Agency - Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Space_Agency | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-20
  Founding date 1994-02-10, headquarters Brasília, mandate, satellite programmes, INPE coordination
- [aeb-gov-br] | AEB - Acesso a Informação / Institucional | https://www.gov.br/aeb/pt-br/acesso-a-informacao/institucional | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20
  Official AEB institutional page; confirms domain aeb.gov.br and gov.br/aeb portal
- [iaf-aeb] | IAF Member Profile: Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) | https://www.iafastro.org/membership/all-members/brazilian-space-agency-aeb.html | tier=third-party | accessed=2026-06-20
  IAF profile; confirms mandate and Latin America positioning
- [wiki-amazonia1] | Amazônia-1 - Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaz%C3%B4nia-1 | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-20
  Amazonia-1 primary operator is INPE; AEB programme oversight; launched 2021-02-28; AWFI 60m sensor
- [eoportal-scd] | SCD - eoPortal Mission Profile | https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/scd | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-20
  SCD-1 (launched 1993-02-09) and SCD-2 (launched 1998-10-22) environmental data collection missions; INPE operator

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