Francisco of Miranda will join Simon Bolivar in space, but not be so close. While the satellite is named after the Liberator is responsible for generating telecommunications, 35 thousand 780 kilometers away from the Earth (geostationary orbit), the satellite Francisco de Miranda is located 640 km (in LEO), because its mission is to observe and photograph Earth.
In a visit to the Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities (ABAE), its...
