Brazil and China are expected to announce a new joint satellite for meteorology in a month during the Cosban (Sino-Brazilian High-Level Commission for Concertation and Cooperation) meeting in Beijing. It will be the first in the area.

The Cosban meeting on June 5th and 6th, covering several areas, will be led by Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Chinese Vice Prime Minister He Lifeng.

Chamon, an electrical engineer from Unicamp and doctor from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de L'Aéronautique et de L'Espace, in France, spoke during his train journey after "three very busy days" at the Sino-Latin American space cooperation forum, in Wuhan, in central China.

In addition to presenting the Brazilian experience, he held a bilateral meeting with the Chinese Space Agency (CNSA), in which future steps in the space relationship between the two countries were discussed.

The new satellite has implications for agriculture and the environment. “The idea is to contribute in this direction,” says Chamon. "It has another advantage, which we need to discuss because meteorology has a broader character, a regional character, for South America as a whole."

(Source: MSN, on May 1)