Potential areas of bilateral collaboration include the exchange of information on issues related to Earth observation, organising and participating in scientific and technological events, and research into satellite technology.
The 2015 International Satellite Symposium, co-organised by Vietnamese Authority of Radio Frequency Management (ARFM) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), came to a close yesterday in the central city of Da Nang.
Viet Nam''s first remote sensing satellite, VNREDSat-1, has captured
3,661 images since it was placed under the country''s control on
September 4 last year.
Vietnamese earth-observing satellite, VNRedSat-1, has not yet detected
any unusual images in the south-west of Tho Chu Island where the
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 is suspected to have gone missing.
VNRedSat-1, Viet Nam''s first optical earth-observing satellite,
traversed Tho Chu island at 11a.m., March 11, capturing images of the
area where the Malaysian Airlines plane went missing on March 8.
Viet Nam and Belgium signed several contracts on January 20 in the
presence of Vietnam''s Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai and his
Belgian counterpart Johan Vande Lanotte.