Brazil has signed space-technology deals with French space agency CNES, Aerospatiale and Soci‚t‚ Europ‚enne de Propulsion (SEP), to build a small science satellite and Earth-observation cameras, and to develop launcher technologies for its $120 million-a-year space programme.
The 80kg satellite, to study the space environment in low-Earth orbit, will be launched in 1998, while the deal with Aerospatiale is jointly to develop optical-imaging systems for the third and fourth Chinese-Brazilian Earth Resources Satellites, CBERS. (Flight International, 21-27 June, 1995, P50)
The $8.2 million deal with SEP will enable the French firm to install equipment for Brazil to test small rocket engines.
Source: Flight International
