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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.667px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">UN/Brazil Symposium on Basic Space Technology September 2018</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">The theme for the United Nations/Brazil Symposium on Basic Space Technology is<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box">'Creating Novel Opportunities with Small Satellite Space Missions'</em>. The symposium will be held September 11-14, 2018 in Natal, Brazil.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">The objectives of the UN/Brazil Symposium will be to:</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">1. Review the status of capacity-building in basic space technology for small satellites including lessons learned from the past and on-going development activities with focus on regional and international collaboration opportunities, in particular for countries in Latin America and Caribbean;</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">2. Examine issues relevant to the implementation of small satellite programmes, such as organizational capacity-building, development, testing infrastructure and launch opportunities;</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">3. Review evolving capabilities and state-of-the-art applications of small satellite programmes and technological developments associated with them, with particular focus on applications for agriculture, environment and urban monitoring, and education that support sustainable growth, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">4. Elaborate on regulatory issues related to space technology development programmes, such as frequency allocation, space debris mitigation and other issues that may arise with the newly emerging trend of small satellite constellations;</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">5. Elaborate on legal issues and responsibilities related to space technology development programmes, such as those that arise from the sources of international space law;</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">6. Discuss the way forward for the Basic Space Technology Initiative (BSTI), and its capacity-building and international cooperation activities in support of UNISPACE+50.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">More information is available at:<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2018-Brazil-Symposium" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://tinyurl.com/2018-Brazil-Symposium</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><font size="1" style="box-sizing:border-box">Thanks to the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs and ANS for the above information</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table>
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