The foremost and oldest Aerospace and Defence exhibition of Latin America, FIDAE is already working on its twentieth-second edition, in 2022. A meeting was held to coordinate the most important conference of the national exhibition: the FIDAE 2022 Space Summit.
The second edition of the “Space Summit”, to take place in FIDAE, will represent a meeting point for the organizations involved in the national space system of the country. This Summit will offer a place to discuss and analyze the different planned stages for the next years with the incorporation of new satellites, the construction of a national space center, which considers among other capabilities, the implementation of a laboratory, a mission control center, and satellite ground stations.
The meeting held online was led by the Space Affairs Deputy Director of the Chilean Air Force, Colonel Luis Saez, FIDAE CEO, Francisco Ramirez, and several other institutions connected to the space field participated.
The International Air and Space Fair will take place from April 5th to 10th, 2022, at the northern side of the Arturo Merino Benítez international airport in Santiago, Chile.