A 1:3 scale mannequin of the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite 06 (CBERS-6) on the tenth “China Space Day” science exhibition in Shanghai on April 28, 2025. Photo: VCG
China and Brazil continued to deepen cooperation in space area, increasing scope of collaboration to new satellite-based internet companies in addition to development of joint space laboratory, in keeping with media studies and Chinese firm collaborating within the programs.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s Chief of Staff, Rui Costa, introduced on native time Wednesday that Chinese low Earth orbit satellite tv for pc firm SpaceSail will begin offering internet entry to distant areas in Brazil within the first half of 2026, in keeping with Reuters.
SpaceSail and Brazil’s state-owned telecom Telebras had signed a memorandum of understanding in late 2024 to supply satellite tv for pc internet companies for faculties, hospitals and different important companies within the South American nation, the report stated.
The Shanghai-based SpaceSail is the developer of the Qianfan constellation – China’s first big low-orbit industrial satellite tv for pc constellation to enter the formal networking part. According to Xinhua News Agency, because the launch of its first batch of 18 networking satellites in August 2024, the constellation has grown to 108 satellites in orbit after 5 extra batches with the most recent in October this 12 months.
Besides the aforementioned program, the Global Times has additionally realized from the state-owned China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) on Thursday that the corporate’s community communication analysis institute had just lately signed an settlement with Brazil’s Federal University of Campina Grande and the Federal University of Paraíba to collectively set up the China-Brazil Joint Laboratory for Radio Astronomy Technology.
The settlement is signed underneath the witness of leaders from China’s Ministry of Science and Technology and Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, with a view to implement the vital outcomes of head-of-state diplomacy and additional promote scientific and technological innovation cooperation between China and Brazil, per the CETC assertion offered to the Global Times on Thursday.
The signing of the settlement marks an vital phased achievement within the development of the laboratory, laying a stable basis and offering a key platform for future worldwide scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, learn the assertion.
Going ahead, the joint laboratory will tackle the scientific wants within the fields of astronomical commentary and deep-space exploration, perform cutting-edge expertise analysis and worldwide scientific cooperation, plan main worldwide scientific tasks, and allow scientific and technological innovation achievements to empower world improvement and world modernization, the corporate elaborated within the assertion.
The space cooperation between China and Brazil goes manner again. The two international locations inked the settlement establishing the joint analysis and manufacturing of the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite program (CBERS) in July 1988. The program has set a very good instance for cooperation amongst growing international locations within the discipline of space expertise, and has been praised as a mannequin of “South-South cooperation.”
Established in 1988, the CBERS program marked the very first improvement of China’s distant sensing satellite tv for pc for civilian use that would transmit information again to Earth straight from space.
Jose Raimundo Coelho, ex-president of the Brazilian Space Agency and one of 50 overseas consultants to obtain the 2023 Chinese Government Friendship Award, hailed in a earlier unique interview with the Global Times that the connection between China and Brazil, which has been considerably improved as a result of CBERS following over three a long time cooperation.