WIRED Summit 2023: Latin America is already traveling to Space. Projects and ...

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This September 21, the WIRED Summit 2023 will be held , which will take place at Expo Santa Fe, Mexico City. Some of the most important personalities from science, technology, education, dissemination and the business world will meet to discuss innovation, the environment, mobility, artificial intelligence, digital communities and more. The WIRED Summit 2022 was very well received and this year we will go even further. This year we present the table 'Latin America is already traveling to Space. Projects and protagonists' .

Latin America is already traveling to Space:

PANELISTS:

Gustavo Medina, head of the LINX laboratory that developed the UNAM Colmena Project.
Guillermo Chin Canché, the Mexican scien Phone Number List tist of Mayan origin who will help NASA reach Titan.
Katya Echazarreta, the Mexican astronaut who seeks to take Mexico to space.
In recent years, Latin America has made important advances in the space field, with several projects and protagonists that have contributed to the development of the space industry in the region. One of them is the Hive Project , five lightweight, cheap minirobots with self-organizing abilities; Next to them will be their packaging and the communications center, in which they made their trip to the Moon, both created at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) , more precisely in  LINX , the first Mexican laboratory in putting national systems in space.

LINX is a pioneer in several matters. In 2021, the first completely Mexican satellite was launched from India. It has also participated with maintenance and power systems in collaborative projects with the French Space Agency, among which the  Mini-Euso stands out , a  miniature version of the Euso-SPB ultraviolet camera, which was launched to the International Space Station in 2019 to measure ultra-high energy cosmic rays that enter the Earth's atmosphere, and in which the Mexican team stood out with its first miniaturized maintenance system. His intention is for Mexico to be an actor in outer space and to participate with something that has application and strategic vision of future needs. The entire package has been passing test after test for months before traveling 384,400 kilometers on the  Peregrine lander on the  Vulcan Centaur rocket from the American company  Astrobotic . Gustavo Medina , head of the LINX laboratory that developed the Colmena Project at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), will attend the WIRED Summit 2023 to explain more about how the robots that Mexico will send to the Moon will work.

Hive Mission
Colmena Project: this is the robots that Mexico sent to the Moon
We spoke with Gustavo Medina, head of the LINX laboratory that developed the Colmena Project at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), to understand up close how the robots that Mexico sent to the Moon work.
Guillermo Chin Canché , the Mexican scientist of Mayan origin who will help NASA reach Titan, will also participate . Guillermo has a PhD in Physical Oceanography and works on NASA's Dragonfly mission. He is also an international science medalist and holds the title of “SOLACYT Legend”. Dragonfly is part of NASA's New Frontiers program and is led by researcher Elizabeth Turtle, who works at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. New Frontiers supports missions identified as priorities in the exploration of the solar system.



The helicopter that will go to Titan must fly autonomously, since, unlike the three minutes needed to establish communication with Mars, the communication time to this moon is very long. Therefore, Dragonfly must know where to collect samples, follow a flight itinerary and remember to send information every so often.

Guillermo Chin Canché
Guillermo Chin Canché, the Mexican scientist of Mayan origin who will help NASA reach Titan
Guillermo Chin Canché is 26 years old and is part of the meteorology team that helps prepare the NASA mission that will send a helicopter to Titan, one of Saturn's moons, in 2027. The scientist speaks with WIRED en Español about his role in Dragonfly and his friends from Campeche
Katya Echazarreta is the first Mexican to travel to space. The Mexican is an electronic engineer. In the middle of last year, the electronic engineer became the first Mexican and the youngest American to travel to space after participating in Blue Origin 's NS-21 mission . The journey, which lasted just 10 minutes, not only changed her life when she was 26 years old at the time, but catapulted her to fame. Now, she has paused her career at NASA and strives to accelerate the aerospace industry in Mexico.

Currently, Katya is studying a master's degree in Electrical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and her dream is to create the necessary institutions in Mexico to provide opportunities for young people and children who want to be in the space industry, but unfortunately those opportunities do not currently exist in Mexico. She has also collaborated with YouTube, co-hosting the Netflix series IRL, while on CBS she has participated in the program Mission Unstoppable.