Brazil to Launch New Satellite to Track Deforestation
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an article published day (12/04), in the website www.spacedaily.com, noting that Brazil
to launch new satellite to track Deforestation.
Duda Falcão
EARTH OBSERVATION
Brazil to
Launch New Satellite
to Track Deforestation
by Staff Writers
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Dec 04,
2014
Brazil
will launch a satellite from China Sunday to keep an eye in the sky on deforestation
in the Amazon, the National Space Agency (INPE) said Thursday.
An
agency spokesman said the launch of the Cbers-4 satellite was scheduled for
0326 GMT December from Tayuan, China, about 750 kilometers (460 miles)
southwest of Beijing.
Brazil
and China will share the $30 million cost of sending the two-ton satellite into
a 778-kilometer high orbit, the spokesman added.
Both
countries participated in the development of the satellite, which has four
cameras in its payload module.
The
launch comes a year after its predecessor satellite failed to enter orbit
because of a fault with the launch vehicle, China's Long March 4B.
CBERS,
standing for China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite, will allow Brazil to keep
a close watch from space on deforestation in the Amazon, the world's largest
tropical rain forest, as well as administer agriculture and monitor livestock
movement.
Brazil
and China began space cooperation in 1988 and CBERS 1 was launched in 1999,
with a second satellite in 2003 and a third in 2007.
Brazil
has not received images from the CBERS program since Cbers-2B ended its useful
life in 2010, Valor financial daily reported Thursday, leading the South
American giant to ink agreements for use of images from other satellites, including
US observation satellite Landsat-8 launched in February last year.
Using
Landsat images has been costing Brazil 200,000 reais ($72,200) a year.
Brazil's
space program, based out of a launch site at Alcantara in the northeastern
state of Maranhao, suffered a blow in 2003 when 21 technicians were killed in
an explosion while assembling the VSL-1 launch rocket as part of ongoing
attempts to develop the country's own launcher.
Fonte: Site http://www.spacedaily.com
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