The Mexican Space Agency (AEM), a decentralized body of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), makes joint efforts with the General Directorate of Standards (DGN) of the Secretariat of Economy (SE), in order to create Mexican Standards (NMX) for the development of space systems in our country, which stimulate a national industry in this sector.

Among the actions to contribute to this objective, the “NMX-AE-003-SCFI-2021” Standard was published, which provides guidelines, parameters, and technical standards to this great talent from Mexico, so that it can guide its efforts in a competitive manner. in these cutting-edge technologies of the current digital age and stimulate the development of a Mexican space sector.

“It is well known that Mexican innate ingenuity is very large, but for this reason it is strategic to guide it and attract that talent towards the development of its own national space sector, since this industry has great potential for priority social tasks in the country, such as connectivity , for example,” explained the general director of the AEM, Salvador Landeros Ayala.

The potential benefits of providing these technical standards are multiple and will enable Mexico’s insertion in international markets through products compatible with the standards required by the global space industry, which generate confidence and certainty in Mexican developments, processes and services.

For this reason, the specifications for different kinds of development, manufacturing and manufacturing of space components contained in this NMX, provide a reference of quality approved to those of international organizations dedicated to standardization, recognized in turn by the Government of Mexico in terms of international law.

In this way, democratizing public access to these standards will favor not only the large consolidated companies in the aerospace field, but will also enable the promotion of young, newly created national technology-based companies (better known in the space environment with the name of “Startups”) and their access to the market, to create economic development and new jobs.

Primarily technical in nature, this NMX sets out performance requirements to ensure Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) of space systems, as well as the engineering issues addressed to achieve EMC at the system level, along with guidance and rationale for achieving conformance to specifications.

It is aimed at technology developers, academic institutions and research groups, entrepreneurs, students, professors, private industry, government agencies, and federal, regional or local entities that develop space systems that consider the integration of electrical/electronic subsystems, such as elements and/or components for the creation of more complex systems, such as space devices or satellite platforms.

Landeros concluded by emphasizing that there is already a great capacity in the talent of our country to start inserting itself in a space industry whose market, only in the segment of Nanosatellites, represents an average global income of 4 billion dollars and invited to consult the declaration of validity of this NMX, in the following link:

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Source: Mexican Government