China and Brazil Team for Second EO Bird

Artist impression of CBERS-2

China and Brazil Team for Second EO Bird
by Wei Long
Beijing - July 19, 2000 - China and Brazil signs a cooperative agreement today (July 19) to build the second China-Brazil Earth Remote Sensing satellite (CBERS-2), Xinhua News Agency reports.

Attending the signing ceremony here are representatives from the Chinese Academy of Space Technology, the Brazilian ministry of science and technology, the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), and Brazil's ambassador to China.

CBERS-2 will be similar to its predecessor but incorporated with improvement to increase capability and reliability.

According to the agreement Brazil will assemble and test the new satellite. China will send a team of specialists and equipment to work with their counterparts in Brazil. The target timeline for launch at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC) in the northern Shanxi Province is the end of 2001.

The new satellite will replace CBERS-1, which has a design lifetime of two years. CBERS-1, also called Ziyuan-1 (ZY-1) in Chinese ("Ziyuan" means resource), was launched from TSLC aboard a Changzheng-4B rocket on October 14 last year into a polar sunsynchronous orbit of about 780 km.

Since launch ZY-1 is working nominally. Scientists use the returned images and data in applications that benefit the economy and development as well as in disaster monitoring and forecast.

CBERS-2 Program

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