The Center for Space Technology Research and Deployment will be equipped with the most advanced devices in the region, internet newswire VietNamNet recently quoted Taka Mashikawa, deputy head of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)’s consultancy group, as saying.
The center will provide photo-based information to monitor floods, observe natural disasters, and even prevent illegal logging, he said.
Japanese experts will help Vietnam build infrastructure, develop human resources and transfer technology in an effort to have the Southeast Asian country making and launching its own satellites by 2017.
With US$350 million in Japanese official development assistance (ODA) investment, construction on the center is scheduled to begin in 2010 for completion in 2017.
Located at Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park, some 20 kilometers from Hanoi, the center will operate under the Space Technology Institute (STI), part of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
STI and JETRO plan to submit a feasibility report to the government by the end of this year.
Source: Tuoi Tre, VietnamNet |
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