Peruvian Space Agency (CONIDA)

The Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacial (CONIDA) is Peru’s government body for space research and development and the home of the Peruvian Space Agency. It develops national aerospace science and technology and provides satellite-based information for public needs. CONIDA’s PerúSAT-1 system combines an Airbus-built optical Earth-observation satellite with the Centro Nacional de Operaciones de Imágenes Satelitales (CNOIS) in Pucusana, where Peruvian specialists control the spacecraft and receive and process imagery. Its applications support agriculture, transport infrastructure, environmental management, security and disaster-risk response, connecting space operations with national institutions that use the resulting data.