INPE - 2010
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Integration and Testing Laboratory (LIT) performs environmental test campaign of SAC-D, Argentina's fourth scientific satellite.
SAC-D Aquarius, an Argentine Satelitte that takes NASA instruments onboard, was tested at LIT-INPE in 2010
- Integration and Test Laboratory completes two thousand clients.
- The most powerful supercomputer in Southern Hemisphere for Climate and Weather research starts to work.
- The first Ph.D. program about Earth System Science (Global Environmental Change) in Latin America starts to work.
- First interdisciplinary study about climate change and urbanization impacts in São Paulo comes to an end.
- Finalization of IONEX experiments to be launched aboard the first Brazilian Scientific Satellite, Lattes, developed by INPE.
- Remote Observation Program had met more than 2000 students and Mini Astronomical Observatory had met more than 3000 visitors.
- Solidification experiment of alloys in micro-gravity successful, through launch of sounding rocket VSB-30 in Maracati-II operation.
- Assembly of electrochemical system to clean wastewater using CVD diamond electrodes.
Worldwide
• Astronauts go into a capsule with no window to simulate a Mars trip. They were confined for 1 year and a half to develop tests of the supposed trip to Mars in 2020.
• Scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory could get 4 trillion degree Celsius during few milliseconds, the highest temperature ever achieved.
• Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launch, which is designed to study solar processes and their direct reactions with Earth.
• Scientists from Institute J. Craig Venter announced the first artificial life form creation.
