Innospace announces new tests and launch of rocket in Alcântara Disclosure/Innospace The South Korean company InnoSpace announced, this Monday (6), the signing of a contract with the Brazilian state-owned company ALADA to carry out, at the Alcântara Launch Center (CLA), in Maranhão, a test flight of the SEBIT, a suborbital rocket developed for scientific and technological verification missions. The launch is part of the movement to expand the commercial use of Alcântara by private companies in the space sector. The Alcântara Launch Center is one of Brazil's main space bases and has been presented as a strategic structure for commercial operations. ? What is ALADA? Empresa de Projetos Aeroespaciais do Brasil S.A. (ALADA) is a federal public company, a subsidiary of NAV Brasil, a state-owned company linked to the Ministry of Defense. The creation of the subsidiary was authorized by Law No. 15,083, of 2025, and formalized in July of the same year to work on aerospace projects, economically explore the country's aerospace infrastructure and navigation, develop and commercialize technologies in the sector and support cooperation between the Brazilian government, national companies and foreign companies. If carried out as planned, the launch will make SEBIT the second commercial rocket launched in Brazil. The first was the Hanbit-Nano, also from InnoSpace, which took off from Alcântara on December 23, 2025, but suffered a failure during the flight and was destroyed. The accident left no injuries. Control center at the Alcântara Base in Maranhão Brazilian Air Force (FAB) According to the statement released by the company, the launch of SEBIT is scheduled for the second half of 2026. The company states that the test in Alcântara will serve to verify the flight performance and operational stability of the SEBIT. SEBIT, a multi-purpose suborbital rocket, was developed to perform payload testing, technology verification and research missions. Its flight takes place close to the limit of space, without entering Earth orbit. The company also intends to use the data obtained during the flight to improve the technical development of the vehicle, increase the reliability of launches and, in the future, offer suborbital testing and verification services to national and international research institutions and companies. READ ALSO: First commercial rocket leaving Brazil is launched in Maranhão and explodes after takeoff 22 years ago, a Brazilian rocket exploded at the Alcântara Base and killed 21 people; remember Launch of 1st commercial rocket departing from Brazil is marked by postponements, explosion after 'anomaly' and apology from CEO
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Innospace announces new tests and launch of rocket in Alcântara Disclosure/Innospace The South Korean company InnoSpace announced, this Monday (6), the signing of a contract with the Brazilian state-owned company ALADA...
What the test will be like According to the company, the rocket was developed for test, verification and research missions of customer payloads. It can be used, for example, in microgravity simulations, scientific research, functional verification of space components and technological demonstrations in high-speed and high-altitude environments. The model has a hybrid engine with 3 tons of thrust and an integrated telemetry system, technology used to transmit and analyze information such as the position of the rocket and the status of the payload during flight in real time. Kim Su-jong, CEO of InnoSpace, said that Sebit was developed to meet the growing demand for scientific research and demonstrations of space technologies in different sectors, such as biotechnology, medicine, new materials and guidance, navigation and control systems. According to him, the contract for use of the launch area represents an important milestone in the company's preparation for offering commercial services on a large scale. The CEO added that, based on this test flight, InnoSpace intends to improve its service standards as a suborbital testing and validation platform, offering customized launches for customers in the space, defense, research and development and high technology sectors. According to the company, the name SEBIT refers to the idea of ??‘precise and delicate light’. The rocket was designed for test and verification missions. Cenipa points out the cause of the failure in a previous launch HANBIT-nano rocket exploded after being launched at the Alcântara Base, in Maranhão Reproduction/InnoSpace/Pedro Pallotta/Space Orbit In June this year, the Center for Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (Cenipa) released the final report of the investigation into the occurrence. According to the agency, the rocket behaved normally in the initial moments of the flight, but suffered a failure approximately 33 seconds after takeoff. According to the report, there was a leak of combustion gases in the front part of the combustion chamber of the first stage engine. This leak caused the structure to rupture and the loss of the launch vehicle. The investigation concluded that the failure was caused by sealing problems identified after reassembling components during launch preparations. According to researchers, insufficient compression and deformation of sealing elements, after replacing a plug in the combustion chamber, allowed hot gases to escape. This escape led to the rocket's catastrophic failure. The accident destroyed the vehicle but left no injuries. According to Cenipa, material damage was restricted to the safety area planned for the operation. The release of the report also marked the conclusion of the first investigation of a space occurrence conducted by Cenipa since the body began to act as responsible for the Accident Investigation and Prevention System in Space Activities (Sipae).
