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Brazil develops sovereign cloud to strengthen digital sovereignty
Brazil is developing a sovereign cloud infrastructure designed to strengthen national control over data, operations and technology while maintaining access to foreign providers and commercial public cloud services.
The Brazilian Cloud project will be developed in coordination with the country’ s productive sector, with state technology company Serpro contributing to technical requirements and a methodology for assessing digital sovereignty. The initiative moves beyond the idea that sovereignty requires complete technological self-sufficiency. Instead, Brazil plans to map external dependencies, assess associated risks and ensure operations can continue when parts of the technology stack are supplied by overseas companies.
Serpro president Wilton Mota said cloud sovereignty should not be defined solely by the physical location of data. Assessments will consider control across three dimensions: data, operations and technology. Factors include access to encryption keys, management responsibilities, applicable jurisdictions, external dependencies and resilience during disruption.
The approach was discussed at the Brazilian Cloud’ s first market hearing, involving the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services, Serpro, the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development and the National Bank for Economic and Social Development.
Brazil’ s existing Government Cloud already applies data residency and domestic operation requirements. The Brazilian Cloud is intended to extend this approach by strengthening national capabilities to develop, maintain and evolve technologies. Planning documents envisage Brazilian institutions and teams maintaining key software capabilities to reduce critical dependencies.
The architecture will also support integration with foreign suppliers and commercial public clouds, creating a multi-provider environment while preserving national decision-making, operational control and service continuity.
Mexico’ s IPN tests TEPEU-1 satellite technology during NASA stratospheric mission
Mexico’ s Instituto Politécnico Nacional( IPN) has completed its eighth stratospheric mission with NASA, testing satellite technology designed to strengthen the country’ s growing aerospace research capabilities.
The EMIDSS-8 experimental suborbital module flew aboard NASA’ s Scientific Balloon Program during the FY26 Fall-FTS Campaign from Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Test Flight STF # 763 NT remained airborne for six hours over US territory, carrying EMIDSS-8 alongside several scientific experiments. A key objective was validating the engineering model of IPN’ s TEPEU-1 satellite, a 1U CubeSat intended to monitor space weather once deployed in orbit. The mission also tested electronic equipment for two CubeSat platforms. stratospheric conditions. Additional experiments included the Trinidad V3 autonomous data and image acquisition system, the SARCAFÉ-BIO project investigating sargassum and coffee as natural reinforcements for biopolymers and a new generation of the Tecuitlatl II platform. An ITESAT-1 engineering module from ITESO was also carried. EMIDSS-8 is expected to return to Mexico by the end of 2026, when researchers will analyse the collected data for future aerospace projects. The results will support further satellite subsystem development across Mexican academic institutions nationwide.
The IPN team, led by Dr Mario Alberto Mendoza Bárcenas of the institution’ s Center for Aerospace Development, developed and integrated EMIDSS-8 during 2026 in collaboration with the National Autonomous University of Mexico’ s Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology.
Before integration with NASA’ s platform, the module underwent technical assessments covering electromagnetic compatibility, safety and mechanical performance. Researchers also used engineering models and simulations to prepare the payload for
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