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Historical Values
Year Value
2025 1960s - established a national space program under the Air Force 1984 - began satellite launch vehicle (SLV) program (Ve culo Lan ador de Sat lites or VLS-1) 1985 - first communications satellite jointly produced with Canada and launched on European SLV 1993 - first domestically built experimental communications satellite (Sat lite de Coleta de Dados, SCD-1) launched by US 2004 - launched a sounding rocket into sub-orbital space, but the subsequent catastrophic failure of a VLS-1 during a test l