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Mr. Stanis³aw Gaw³owski, Secretary of State of the Ministry of the Environment, and Prof. Mieczys³aw Ostojski, Director-General of Poland’s Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, met a EUMETSAT delegation led by the organization’s Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm.
Read MoreLatvia has signed the accession agreement to become a full Member State of EUMETSAT.
Read MoreEUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 66th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, from December 9th through 10th.
Read MoreThe Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) concluded a Memorandum of Unity (MOU) for cooperating in monitoring World Heritage Sites using the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "DAICHI" (ALOS) to watch and protect the common legacy of all mankind.
Read MoreNASA has signed a $141 million modification to the current International Space Station contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency for crew transportation services planned through the spring of 2012.
Read MoreIgor Shchegolev, the Communications Minister of Russia, has invited Cuba to become a member of Glonass, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. GPS system.
Read MoreIn attendance at the European Space Council in Brussels on September 26 was EUMETSAT Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm, whose presence validated the importance of Europe's satellite applications services in operational meteorology. The Space Council set four new priorities for the European Space Policy: space and climate change, contribution of space to the Lisbon strategy, space and security, and space exploration.
Read MoreThey met in Paris, they talked, and they agreed. The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies got together to discuss and review ISS cooperation.
Read Morehe Heads of the International Space Station (ISS) Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met at European Space Agency (ESA) Headquarters in Paris, France, on July 17, 2008, to review ISS cooperation.
Read MoreOver 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.
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