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Over the last 6 months, representatives from NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have been engaged in a detailed assessment of potential programs and technologies that when conducted cooperatively could one day support a human outpost on the moon.
Read MoreDuring a meeting between of The Joint Working Group of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French Space Agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in Goa, an agreement between ISRO and CNES on the data policy for distribution of data received from Megha Tropiques was signed.
Read MoreAn agreement on closer cooperation between ESA and Slovenia was signed on 28 May, by René Oosterlinck, ESA Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, and Mojca Kucler Dolinar, the Slovenian Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology.
Read MoreDuring the morning of the 63 EUMETSAT Council, Dr. Lars Prahm, Director General of EUMETSAT, and Volker Liebig, Director of Earth Observation Programs at the European Space Agency (ESA), exchanged letters to document the understanding achieved between EUMETSAT and ESA.
Read MoreA cooperation agreement for joint lunar research and exploration has been signed between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos). Mr. G Madhavan Nair, the Chairman of the ISRO, and Mr. A. Perminov, the Director of Roskosmos, signed the agreement on November 12th in Moscow.
Read MoreAustralia and the United States have signed an agreement which will find the two nations cooperating on the wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system. This will expand this constellation to six satellites.
Read MoreFrom the online auspices of the allAfrica.com news website comes a story bylined by Patrick Ugeh indicating that Nigeria may well assist Venezuela in launching a satellite which they have named Simon Boliva.
Read MoreEUMETSAT and Canada today initialed a memorandum of understanding to advance cooperation in satellite monitoring activities. Under the agreement, which will come into effect in 2008, Europe and Canada will work together to improve weather, climate and environmental monitoring through the observation of atmosphere and oceans.
Read MoreFive members of the National Cosmic Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NCARK), led by their Chairman of the space agency Talghat Mussabayev, traveled to India to chat with the folk at the Indian Space Research Organization and their chairman, G. Madhavan Nair and other execs. Kazakhstan is the home of the Baikonur satellite launch facility.
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