Tesla plans to send 40,000 satellites into space in the next seven years. So many of them are going to be designed and built in Mexico.

The boom in the aerospace industry achieved in recent years in Mexico has made it a benchmark for international supply and every year more international companies operate in the Republic.

In this sense, Luis Lizcano, general director of the Mexican Federation of the Aerospace Industry (FEMIA), pointed out that global companies are currently operating such as Airbus Group, from Europe; Bombardier Aerospace, from Canada; Aernnova, from Spain; Daher Aerospace, Goupe Latécoère, Safran Group and Thales, of French origin.

Eaton Aerospace, GKN, Rolls Royce and Meggitt from the UK also operate; Collins Aerospace, General Electric, Gulfstream Aerospace, Honeywell Aerospace, Sargent Aerospace, Textron-Cessna, Bell Helicopter and Beechcraft, from the United States.

"Before we did not make any airplanes and now we manufacture 7 billion dollars and the same will happen with space," he said.

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During a conference called Perspective of the Aerospace Industry in Mexico, the manager said that in addition to being a supplier to the main aircraft manufacturers, Mexico also works with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and with the European Space Agency, and With this, in the coming years a range of opportunities will open up for companies linked to the sector.

“15 or 20 years ago, the industrial trend was the aerospace sector, but now the space branch has a very important trend, nothing else Tesla has planned in the next seven years to send 40 thousand satellites into space.

So many of them are going to be designed and built in Mexico. There is even a Mexican company that has just acquired a constellation of high definition earth observation satellites, ”he said.

Lizcano also announced that, at the beginning of this year, FEMIA was invited to be part of the International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industry Associations, where associations from Europe, the United States, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Russia and Singapore participate. which means opening the door to Mexican suppliers in those nations.

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Under this approach, the manager envisions that the aerospace sector will have significant growth.

“We will achieve growth levels of between 6 and 10%, which, although they will remain below the 14.3% achieved between 2004 and 2019, represent volumes of 7,100 million dollars. However, we must not lose sight of the fact that there is a gap of 5 billion dollars in potential imports that can be produced in Mexico ”, he emphasized.

For the head of FEMIA, import substitution and the fact that a large number of aerospace workers will retire in the United States will create greater opportunities for Mexican companies.

“In the next five years, more than 50% of the workers in the American aerospace industry will retire and lack replacements. However, in Mexico there are such people and there is also the expertise and the vocation ”, he concluded.

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