Agência Brasil
Brasil – One of the bilateral endeavors that Brazil and China are working together on is in the space research area where they have jointly launched satellites. The effort is now about to bear fruit. The sale of images from the Brazil-China Earth Resources Satellite (Cbers-2) should bring revenue to Brazil and China of at least US$2.5 million in 2005. Half of the income will go to Brazil for reinvestment in space research.
During his visit to Brazil last week, the president of China, Hu Jintao, visited the Brazilian Cbers project and signed agreements with president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the commercialization of the images.The two government also worked out the final details on launches of additional satellites: a Cbers-3 in 2008 and a Cbers-4 in 2010.
