Abstract
In line with the growing number of nations displaying public and private space activities in the last two decades, there has been a noticeable increase in space-faring countries in South America, with varied evolutionary trajectories. The study of the evolution of each program provides relevant information on such topics as benchmarking, competitive intelligence, and space policies and strategies. This article presents a comparative study of the evolution of a set of South American space programs based on a modified framework initially developed by WOOD and WEIGEL (2012). The proposed model comprises five institutional and technological “evolutionary” capacitation steps. A comparison chart of current space missions conducted in South America is presented, giving an overview of the evolution of space programs in the region.
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