INPE - 2007
- CBERS-2B is launched, from Taiyuan Base.
- The large-sized Thermal Vacuum Chamber to test CBERS series satellites is inaugurated at Integration and Test Laboratory premises.
- Surpassed the record of 300.000 CBERS images distributed.
- INPE acquires autonomy in Transient Luminous Events research making the first sprites observations with the institution's efforts and equipment.
- The Space Weather program is provided by INPE and partners, one of the challenges for Brazil in the XXI century.
- Four INPE researchers, participating in IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
- More than a thousand visitors welcomed and over a thousand students met by the remote observation program of Mini Astronomical Observatory
- Master Plan for 2007-2011 periods is launched.
- Technology of manufacturing radiometer to measure global solar radiation photosynthetically active was transferred to national company.
- Applications of ion deployment process using plasma immersion processing of CBERS image camera parts.
Worldwide
• NASA confirms presence of methane lakes on Titan.
• Apple launches iPhone.
• Lunar eclipse may be seen in whole world.
• YouTube, so far just in English, is translated to other languages, including Portuguese.
