INPE - 1992

• Secretariat of Science and Technology becomes Science and Technology Ministry (MCT), and INPE integrates it as a specific organ.
• SAREX’92 Mission happens. The resources came from Canadian government and ESA.
• Visitors Center is opened.
  
  
  Visitor Center Opening.
• It is launched the Fire Detection Project using NOAA satellite images.
• First simultaneous measurements by rocket (worldwide) of the vertical distribution and atmospheric sodium luminescence profile.
• Investigations in diamond and self-supporting thin films deposited by chemical vapor deposition (CVD).

  Worldwide

Rio-92 is held, world´s major conference about environment.