INPE - 1999

• CBERS-1 and SACI-1 are launched by a Chinese rocket, from Taiyuan Base, China. Through the partnership that resulted on CBERS-1, China and Brazil began to know the cycle of specification, development, manufacture, integration, testing, launch, and operations of medium resolution optical earth observation satellites. SACI-1 failed and SACI-2 is lost during the launch.
  
  
  Launch of the first CBERS-1 satellite.
• First fake lightning made on southern hemisphere
• The First Brazilian Infrared Camera (Cam IV) starts to work for astronomical use.
• Testing Bank of Altitude Simulation (BTSA) for mono and bipropellant satellite thrusters and Propellants Analysis Laboratory (LANAP) were inaugurated.

  Worldwide

• Aspirin turns 100 years old.

• The Millennium Bug does not happen.