The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil, Luciana Santos, told Sputnik on the 28th of February that Brazil wants to start building a new Earth Resources Satellite Program (CBERS) satellite with China within six months.

“Our hope is to start building CBERS-6 in the coming months. This is essential to strengthen our Amazon monitoring agencies and carry out climate studies,” said Santos.

CBERS is a Chinese-Brazil technological cooperation program for the production of a series of Earth observation satellites that began on 6th of July, 1988, and culminated in the launch of the CBERS-1 satellite in 1999.

(Source: Sputnik Brazil)