The total for the next 10 years was defined during the programme revision works by the Brazilian Space Agency. For 2005, the forecasted budget is of US$ 100 million, but the quantity may be increased. The launching of the fourth prototype of the satellite launcher rocket VLS-1 is expected to take place in 2006, as well as the first journey to space by Brazilian astronaut Marcos Pontes, trained by NASA.
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Brazilian company Consult & Television is responsible for the installation in Brazil of the transmission system of 10 television channels from Lebanon, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya and Yemen. The service has already been installed for around 3,000 users, according to the company director, Hugo Alabi. The search for Arab television channels has been increasing among Brazilians, said Alabi.
While visiting Brazil, the director of ComputerMan, Abubaker Mustafa Mohd Khair, signed a contract for technology and student and professor exchange with the institution in the Federal District. Khair, who will be returning to Sudan on Saturday, intends to close other similar partnerships up to next year. He is also interested in taking flower cultivation technology to the African country, as his university is going to open a research centre in the area in Ethiopia.
Agência Brasil Brasília – Brazil may have its first astronaut in space in 2006. It is expected that by then Brazilian Air Force lieutenant colonel Marcos Pontes, who has been in training in the US since 1998, will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS). According to the president of the Brazilian Space Agency
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
Agência Brasil Brasília – The First Latin American Conference on Open Source Software (Latinoware 2004) will begin this evening at the Hotel Rafain Palace, in Foz do Iguaçu (PR). The Brazilian director-general of Itaipu Binacional, Jorge Samek, will preside over the opening ceremony. The conference will discuss the evolution, distribution and use of open source
The coordinator in the business sector of the World Summit on the Information Society, Elhaj Gley, also said, yesterday (04) at the Latin American e-Business Forum in São Paulo, that Brazil and Tunisia need to exchange experiences in the area.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The use of homeopathic medicines in farm animals is a good thing. In cows and chickens its use can increase production of milk and eggs, stimulate growth and combat parasites. At least that is what Luiz Miguel Mangini, the president of the Brazilian Veterinary Homeopathic Medicine Association (AHB), says. His comments
The theme will be discussed in the XIV National Seminar of Technological Parks and Business Incubators, to take place in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, from the 8th to 12th of November. The meeting, which normally takes place in the south, southeast and mid west regions of the country, will take place in the northeast this year to stimulate local technologic development. The entities promoting this meeting wish to strengthen the creation of technological parks in regions outside the main
Atech Tecnologias Críticas closed US$ 1 million contract with the government of the neighbouring country so as to integrate the interfaces of a network of sensors and meteorological and hydrological radars. This is the greatest international agreement closed by the company that organized the integration of the System for the Vigilance of the Amazon (Sivam).
Agência Brasil Brasília – The use of open source software by fifteen Brazilian federal government agencies and ministries has generated an economy of US$9.9 million (R$28.5 million) in license payments for the year between October 2003 and September 2004. And that is just the beginning. According to Sergio Amadeu, the president of the National Information Technology
