The Hindu : India, Brazil sign space cooperation deal

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Monday, Jan 26, 2004

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India, Brazil sign space cooperation deal

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JAN. 25. The Ministers for External Affairs of India and Brazil, Yashwant Sinha and Celso Amorim, signed a Framework Agreement to cooperate in the field of outer space, on Sunday at New Delhi, a Department of Space release said here. The agreement was signed in the presence of the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. G. Madhavan Nair, chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation and Luiz Bevilacqua, President, Brazilian Space Agency, also signed an agreement on the programme of cooperation.

The programme envisaged "Joint research in space and atmospheric sciences, exchange of proposals for remote sensing applications, launch of a Brazilian micro-satellite for atmospheric studies by India and setting up of a ground station in Brazil for receiving remote sensing data from ISRO's remote sensing satellite, RESOURCESAT-1."

ISRO and AEB had signed a Memorandum of Understanding in March 2002 "to provide an umbrella" for cooperation between the two countries in the area of space.

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