05 December 2019
During the 11th BRICS Summit in Brasilia in November, the leaders of the five BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries noted progress towards developing an own remote sensing satellite.
Recently, the Indian Secretary of State responsible for space has indicated that "progress has been made in technical discussions to realise a virtual constellation of remote sensing satellites, as part of the BRICS Programme. Technical aspects with respect to identifying the satellites and the ground stations for the initial virtual constellation were discussed by the Space Agencies.” The group of BRICS nations plans to share crucial data under a “virtual constellation of remote sensing satellites” which is made up of satellites contributed by BRICS space agencies.
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