Brazil wants to in the near future to choose a new partner for the space program, among the main contenders - Russia and the United States, the Agency reports citing sources familiar with the situation. A key element of this project is to launch commercial satellites from Alcantara launch site: the location near the equator gives the possibility to display satellites into orbit by the shortest path and with a minimum consumption of fuel. for the past ten years the Brazilians have cooperated in this area with Ukraine, but in February of the current year's financial difficulties experienced by the new Ukrainian government made further work impossible. According to sources Reuters, the choice of a new partner will be affected by a number of factors, among them the diplomatic relations of Brazil with an imaginary candidate and the proposed technology. Director of the Brazilian space Agency Jose Raimundo Coelho drew attention that the Russian Federation is interested in cooperation with Brazil and is in the vanguard space technologies, and in the same time cooperate with the United States interfere with certain difficulties. The tension in relations with Washington have made the scandal that unfolded in 2013 around the Agency's public safety and mass spying for U.S. residents. Then Brazil preferred the French company Thales to implement the contract for $400 million for the construction of the satellite. Concluded in 2000, an agreement on the launch of U.S. satellites from the spaceport of Alcantara was canceled by President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, as implied oversight from the U.S. over a part of the infrastructure. now Washington did not want from this requirement, but insists on the conclusion of the Treaty, according to which Brazil may not transfer any technology to third countries. This condition causes a lot of questions in Brasilia, as well as among them in connection with twenty years of cooperation with China for the launch of Brazilian satellites from Chinese bases.