INPE - 2000

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First ocean-atmosphere coupled model starts to work in Brazil.
Integration and Test Laboratory performs environmental test campaign of the third Argentine scientific satellite, SAC-C.
Under INPE’s coordination the 51 International Astronautical Congress is held, sponsored annually by International Aeronautical Federation (IAF).
The budget management is introduced by Mutiyear Plan 2000-2003 (PPA).
Terralib, an open source library to support innovative applications in geoprocessing, starts to be developed. It aims to enable the development of SIG environments that can incorporate the latest advances in Geo-Information Science, with emphasis on the use of SGBS to store all kinds of geographic data.
Begining of research and development in micro and nanostructured ceramic materials.
Spherical Tokamak Experiment (ETE) gets the first tokamak plasma.

• U.S. and Britain scientists announced the first draft of the complete human genome sequence.

• Discovery of Varuna, a planetoid in Kuiper Belt

Genome.