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Avibras Industria Aeroespacial SA is a Brazilian aerospace and defense manufacturer associated with the ASTROS rocket-artillery family, SS-series rockets, missiles, special vehicles, and solid-propulsion work for Brazilian space programs. Its original official site identifies the company as being in judicial recovery, while Avibras Aeroco presents a new Brazilian-owned operating company built around Avibras assets and technology.
1 weaponsAvibras is one of Brazil’s long-running aerospace and defense manufacturers, with a portfolio that has included the ASTROS ground-to-ground rocket and missile system, SS-series artillery rockets, tactical missile work, launcher vehicles, and space-propulsion hardware. Brazilian government catalogues describe the company as a defense-industrial and space-sector supplier based in Jacareí, São Paulo.
The original Avibras website currently states that Avibras Indústria Aeroespacial S.A. is in judicial recovery before the 2nd Civil Court of Jacareí. In 2026, Avibras Aeroco began presenting itself as a new Brazilian private company operating from Avibras assets, with public pages organized around defense systems, space launch and propulsion, operational support, and customer services.
Avibras' best-known wheeled multiple launch rocket system, built around modular launch boxes for SS-series rockets and later missile integration.
Sources: ASTROS Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, Avibras Aeroco DefenceModernized ASTROS development line treated in the catalog as an ASTROS II variant; Forecast International describes the Mk6 package and Brazilian ASTROS 2020 procurement.
Sources: ASTROS Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
300 mm ASTROS-family rocket represented by a separate catalog munition record because open-source investigations identify SS-60 Mk4-marked remnants.
Sources: ASTROS Multiple Launch Rocket SystemsCompany and industry sources identify Avibras as founded in 1961.
Sources: Avibras to Harpia agreement release
A Brazilian space-program presentation to the United Nations recorded VSB-30 type certification and described the sounding rocket's role in Brazilian and European microgravity programs.
Sources: The Brazilian Sounding Rocket VSB-30
Brazilian government and space-industry catalogues described Avibras as a privately owned Brazilian company active in space, aeronautics, and defense.
Sources: Brazilian Defense Industrial Base product catalog, Catálogo de Fornecedores do Centro Espacial de Alcântara
Avibras' official website stated that Avibras Indústria Aeroespacial S.A. was in judicial recovery in the 2nd Civil Court of Jacareí, São Paulo.
Sources: Avibras home page
Forecast International identified Avibras as prime contractor for ASTROS multiple launch rocket systems and treated future production as speculative because of possible acquisition activity around the manufacturer.
Sources: ASTROS Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
Avibras Aeroco publicly launched as a new Brazilian-owned company built on Avibras Indústria Aeroespacial assets, with a portfolio centered on ASTROS, missile, rocket, special-vehicle, and space-launch technology.
Sources: Avibras Aeroco Home, Brazil relaunches Avibras as Aeroco
Avibras' original official homepage states that Avibras Indústria Aeroespacial S.A. is in judicial recovery. Current operating and portfolio claims are separated from that legal notice and attributed to Avibras Aeroco and independent defense reporting where applicable.
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Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.
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