INPE - 1989

• SCT (Especial Secretariat of Science and Technology) is created as an integral organ of the Republic Presidency.
• PRODES Project begins – Brazilian Amazon Monitoring by Satellites, with annual data about deforestations rates.
• Brazil heads the collaboration between INPE and NASA to register lightning from satellites.
• CPTEC - Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies Center is created.
• The Earth Observation Coordination participates in the Science Team of the Earth Science Enterprise Program, which defines Scientifics goals, payloads and calibration missions and culminates in the opening of Terra and Aqua platforms, in 1999. This Scientific collaboration with NASA allowed OBT researches participation in NASA projects.
• INPE hires National Industry of solar panels for CBERS-1 and CBERS-2 satellite .
• Image processing system IMAGE-100 was disabled. Purchased in 1974 by INPE, had long been the only system for digital processing of satellite images operating in Brazil.
  
  
  
  Deactivation of IMAGE-100, November 1989. Image Processing Division team (DPI), INPE São José dos Campos, Brazil.
• Chinese and Brazilians carry out preliminary studies of Sino-Brazilian satellite.
• Brazil and Argentina signed a bilateral cooperation protocol for space use.

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The U.S. oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 40 000 tones of oil that spread over a radius of 1770 km along Alaska